(Christians may do these things in a "spiritual" sense and changing the approach to dealing with justice, but reality is that these laws are for the land of Israel and the times before Christ explained proper Justice and Mercy.) CHRISTIAN DO meditate on these verses, OLD and NEW. Gain better ground at the righteousness in Judgement of the Lord.
Business Practices
- Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Lev. 25:14) (CCN47).
- Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Lev. 25:37) (CCN54).
- Not to borrow on interest (Deut. 23:20) (because this would cause the lender to sin) (CCN55).
- Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender, neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them (Ex. 22:24) (CCN53).
- To lend to a poor person (Ex. 22:24) (even though the passage says "if you lend" it is understood as obligatory) (CCA62).
- Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Ex. 22:24) (CCN52).
- Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deut. 24:6) (CCN58).
- Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deut. 24:10) (CCN59).
- Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deut. 24:12) (CCN61).
- To return a pledge to its owner (Deut. 24:13) (CCA63).
- Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deut. 24:17) (CCN60).
- Not to commit fraud in measuring (Lev. 19:35) (CCN83).
- To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Lev. 19:36) (affirmative).
- Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deut. 25:13-14) (CCN84
From Jewfaq.org
(Lev 25:14) And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
(Lev 25:37) Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
(Deu 23:20) Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
(Exo 22:24) And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
(Deu 24:6) No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
(Deu 24:10) When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
(Deu 24:12) And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
(Deu 24:13) In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
(Deu 24:17) Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
(Lev 19:35) Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
(Lev 19:36) Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
(Deu 25:13) Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
(Deu 25:14) Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
(Rom 12:11) Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
(1Th 4:11) And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
(Rev 3:2) Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
(Rev 22:12) And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
(1Ti 5:8) But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
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