'Interest' in the Bible

Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

then you should have deposited my money with the bankers. And when I returned I would have received my money back with interest.

He also said to them, "Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest.

Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone; but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it.

If you lend [money] to those from whom you expect to receive [it back], what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners expecting to receive back the same amount.

“A certain moneylender had two debtors: one owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

He who is not with Me [believing in Me as Lord and Savior] is against Me [there is no impartial position]; and he who does not gather with Me [assisting in My ministry], scatters.

why didn’t you put my money in the bank? And when I returned, I would have collected it with interest!’

Because he is a servant he has no interest in the sheep.

You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.

who was handed over on account of our trespasses, and was raised up in the interest of our justification.

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing that which comes as the result.

so that there would be no division or discord in the body [that is, lack of adaptation of the parts to each other], but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.

But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus with the same deep interest in you;

For Titus not only accepted our appeal, but was so very interested in you that he has gone to visit you of his own accord.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth [and the gospel—the good news of salvation].

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

But it is good to have an interest in a good cause at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, and that they form one body with us, and have the same interest as we have in the promise which has been made good in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

I do not have anyone else like him who takes a genuine interest in your welfare.

I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that now at last you have renewed your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned about me before, but you had no opportunity to show it.

For I can bear witness to the deep interest he takes in you and in the brethren at Laodicea and in those at Hierapolis.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,