Reese: How Big Banks Enslaved Humanity

Reese Report: Big Banks and Usury

What is Usury You may Ask?
u·su·ry
/ˈyo͞oZH(ə)rē/
noun: usury
the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
"the medieval prohibition on usury"

And references to Usury in the Bible Are:

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 2,883 helpful votes

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Psalm 15:5 ESV / 2,284 helpful votes

Who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 2,231 helpful votes

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Ezekiel 18:13 ESV / 2,120 helpful votes

Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Deuteronomy 23:19 ESV / 2,023 helpful votes

“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.

Ezekiel 22:12 ESV / 1,925 helpful votes

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Leviticus 25:36 ESV / 1,870 helpful votes

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 1,826 helpful votes

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

Ezekiel 18:8 ESV / 1,825 helpful votes

Does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 1,814 helpful votes

“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Ezekiel 18:17 ESV / 1,804 helpful votes

Withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.

Jeremiah 15:10 ESV / 1,794 helpful votes

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Leviticus 25:37 ESV / 1,600 helpful votes

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Deuteronomy 23:20 ESV / 1,560 helpful votes

You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Nehemiah 5:7 ESV / 1,380 helpful votes

I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them

Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 1,355 helpful votes

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Luke 19:23 ESV / 1,124 helpful votes

Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’

Nehemiah 5:10 ESV / 950 helpful votes

Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.

Isaiah 24:2 ESV / 947 helpful votes

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 875 helpful votes

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.