TOPICAL BIBLE
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; neither shall you charge him interest.Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,Exodus 22:27for 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 him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.Leviticus 25:36Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.Leviticus 25:37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.Deuteronomy 15:1At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.Deuteronomy 15:2This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.Deuteronomy 15:3Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.Deuteronomy 15:4However 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 15:5if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.Deuteronomy 15:6For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.Deuteronomy 15:7If 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 15:8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.Deuteronomy 15:9Beware 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 15:10You shall surely give him, 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 15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.Deuteronomy 23:19You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:Deuteronomy 23:20to a foreigner you may lend on interest; 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 24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.Deuteronomy 24:10When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.Deuteronomy 24:11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.Deuteronomy 24:12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;Deuteronomy 24:13you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.Deuteronomy 24:17You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;Nehemiah 5:1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.Nehemiah 5:2For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”Nehemiah 5:3Some also there were that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”Nehemiah 5:4There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.Nehemiah 5:5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”Nehemiah 5:6I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.Nehemiah 5:7Then 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 5:8I 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 never a word.Nehemiah 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?Nehemiah 5:10I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Please restore to them, even this day, 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 5:12Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.Nehemiah 5:13Also 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 thus be he shaken out, and emptied.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.Psalm 37:25I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.Psalm 37:26All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.Psalm 112:5It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.Proverbs 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.Proverbs 22:7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.Isaiah 24:1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.Isaiah 24:2It 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.Matthew 5:42Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.Luke 6:34If 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 6:35But 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.
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