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Luk 19:23 — Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Wherefore		Rom 2:4,5
usury		Exd 22:25-27; Deu 23:19,20

Correlating Passages

Wherefore

	Rom 2:4	Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
	Rom 2:5	But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

usury

	Exd 22:25	If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
	Exd 22:26	If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
	Exd 22:27	For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.
	Deu 23:19	Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
	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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Luke 19:23," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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