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 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
• Exod 22:25“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
• Ezek 22:12In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 18:8he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
• Matt 7:21–25Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• Deut 23:19–20You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
• Jas 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• Prov 12:3A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
• John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
• Exod 23:7–8“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
• Ps 55:22Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
• Ps 112:6For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
• Isa 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
• 2 Pet 1:10–11Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
• Ps 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
• Matt 27:3–5Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
• Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
• Ezek 18:17who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
• Neh 5:2–5For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
• Lev 25:35–37“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.
• Ezek 18:27Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Matt 26:15and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
• Mic 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
• Neh 5:7–13Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

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