26 Bible Verses about Lending

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen a righteous man forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it. Do not say to thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give, when thou have it by thee.

Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother, but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.

And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee [as] a stranger and a sojourner. Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.

And if ye lend to whom ye hope to receive, what credit is for you? For even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad. Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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

For LORD thy God will bless thee as he promised thee, and thou shall lend to many nations, but thou shall not borrow, and thou shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.

LORD will open to thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand. And thou shall lend to many nations, and thou shall not borrow. And LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail. And thou shall only be above, and thou shall not be beneath, if thou shall hearken to the commandments of LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do,

There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]. Neither is it in our

And if a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water. And he cried, and said, Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.

Behold, LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it. And it shall 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

Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shall not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy food for profit.

If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Thou shall not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent upon interest.

he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

he who has not given forth upon interest, nor has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed TRUE justice between man and man,

Give to every man who asks thee, and from him who takes away thy personal things do not demand them back. And as ye desire that men would do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

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

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

And if any man should say to you, Why are ye doing this? say ye, The Lord has need of it, and straightaway he sends it here.