Psalms 15:5

The godly do not exploit others through usury or pervert justice with bribes, and such a person is unshakable. It matters because integrity in money and justice marks those who securely dwell with God.

Cross-references · 24

• Deut 16:19Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
• Exod 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
• Ezek 22:12In 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.
• Ezek 18:8He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
• Matt 7:21–25Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• Deut 23:19–20Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
• Jas 1:22–25Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
• Prov 12:3A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
• John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
• Exod 23:7–8Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
• Ps 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
• Ps 112:6Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
• Isa 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
• 2 Pet 1:10–11Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
• Ps 106:3Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
• Matt 27:3–5When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
• Ps 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
• Ezek 18:17He 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 father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
• Neh 5:2–5Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
• Lev 25:35–37Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
• Ezek 18:27But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
• Matt 26:15and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.
• Mic 7:3Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
• Neh 5:7–13and 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

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