Quotes About Usury

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.

Commercial "silver" debts among traders and other entrepreneurs were not subject to these debt jubilees. Rulers recognized that productive business loans provide resources for the borrower to pay back with interest, in contrast to consumer debt. This was the contrast that medieval Schoolmen later would draw between interest and usury.

In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them

I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.

He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.

He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.

He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his fatherís iniquity. He will surely live.

In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.