ContradictionsReading order 538Bible context 2 min read
Is usury wrong?
The first quotation regulates collateral rather than interest, so it does not provide the prohibition needed for the proposed contradiction.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
The purported prohibition concerns returning collateral clothing and says nothing about interest, so the opposing rule is absent.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
A neighbor's pledged clothing must be returned before sunset
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Exodus 22:26
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Exodus 22
Parable speakers expect deposited money to earn interest
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Matthew 25:27
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 25