32 Bible Verses about lent
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Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshiped the LORD there.
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor men have lent to me for interest; yet everyone of them does curse me.
Take you no interest from him, or profit: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.
When you do lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give you offspring of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.
He that has pity upon the poor lends unto the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, are lending them money and grain: I pray you, let us stop this charging interest.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends anything unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.
And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they gave unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you shall lend unto many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.
And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
Cursed be the day on which I was born: let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed.
You shall not charge interest to your brother; interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest:
In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness unto you before the LORD your God.
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor lend him your food for profit.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country:
For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
If you lend money to any of my people who is poor among you, you shall not be to him as a lender, neither shall you charge him interest.
You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received my own with interest.
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
He that puts not out his money at interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
The LORD shall open unto you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
But go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and released him, and forgave him the debt.
And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.