Lending

General Scriptures Concerning

• Exodus 22:25–27 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. …
• Leviticus 25:35–37 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. …
• Deuteronomy 15:1–11 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. …
• Deuteronomy 23:19–20 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. …
• Deuteronomy 24:6 Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
• Deuteronomy 24:10–13 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. …
• Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
• Nehemiah 5:1–13 About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. …
• Psalm 37:25–26 I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread. …
• Psalm 112:5 It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
• Proverbs 19:17 Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
• Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
• Proverbs 28:8 He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• Isaiah 24:1–2 Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— …
• Ezekiel 18:13 He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
• Matthew 5:42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
• Luke 6:34–35 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. …