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Matt 21:12 "And Jesus entered the temple of God and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple and turned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, 'It is written, 'My house show be called a house of prayer'; but you make it a den of robbers.'"
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The borrower is slave to the lender. When you are in debt to another, you enter into a slave/master relationship with your creditor. (Proverbs 22:7) God wants us to lend to others. Obviously, this is difficult if you don’t have anything to lend. (Deuteronomy 15:6, 28:12, Matthew 5:42) We are required to pay back what we borrowed. It is easy to take this lightly, but if we borrowed it, we should pay it back. (Psalm 37:21, Ecclesiastes 5:4)
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YES... NOT to be indebted to anyone..if that is possible... (Proverbs 22:7) The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.
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Yes. And it says that to charge ANY interest is usury. It says that when you lend money, you are to give it to help your brother without interest.
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Found this in a Feb 1, 2006 Watchtower, under scriptural questions. Neh 5:7—In what sense did Nehemiah begin “finding fault with the nobles and the deputy rulers”? These men were exacting usury from their fellow Jews in violation of the Mosaic Law. (Leviticus 25:36; Deuteronomy 23:19) Moreover, the interest the lenders were demanding was high. If demanded monthly, “the hundredth” would be equivalent to 12 percent a year. (Nehemiah 5:11) It was cruel to impose this on people already heavily burdened with taxes and a food shortage. Nehemiah found fault with the rich in that, using God’s Law, he reproved and rebuked them and thus exposed their wrongdoing.
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Didn't Jesus kick a bunch of banksters out of temple or something? Wow! Even back then people knew that banksters were good for nothing leaches!
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