LENDING

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• Exodus 22:25

  “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

• Exodus 22:26

  If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

• Exodus 22:27

  for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

• Leviticus 25:35

  “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

• Leviticus 25:36

  Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

• Leviticus 25:37

  You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

• Deuteronomy 15:1

  At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

• Deuteronomy 15:2

  This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

• Deuteronomy 15:3

  Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

• Deuteronomy 15:4

  However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)

• Deuteronomy 15:5

  if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.

• Deuteronomy 15:6

  For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

• Deuteronomy 15:7

  If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

• Deuteronomy 15:8

  but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

• Deuteronomy 15:9

  Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

• Deuteronomy 15:10

  You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

• Deuteronomy 15:11

  For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

• Deuteronomy 23:19

  You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

• Deuteronomy 23:20

  You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 24:6

  No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

• Deuteronomy 24:10

  When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

• Deuteronomy 24:11

  You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.

• Deuteronomy 24:12

  If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

• Deuteronomy 24:13

  You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 24:17

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

• Nehemiah 5:1

  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

• Nehemiah 5:2

  For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Nehemiah 5:6

  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 5:12

  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 5:13

  Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even be he shaken out, and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

• Psalms 37:25

  I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

• Psalms 37:26

  All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

• Psalms 112:5

  It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

• Proverbs 19:17

  He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

• Proverbs 22:7

  The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

• Proverbs 28:8

  He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

• Isaiah 24:1

  Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

• Isaiah 24:2

  It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

• Ezekiel 18:13

  has lent on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be on him.

• Matthew 5:42

  Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

• Luke 6:34

  If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

• Luke 6:35

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.