32 Bible Verses about lent
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Therefore, I also have given him back to the LORD; as long as he lives he shall belong to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them curses me.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase; but thou shalt have the fear of thy God, and thy brother shall live with thee.
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge.
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of the LORD. And they went unto their own home.
He that gives unto the poor lends unto the LORD, and he will give him his reward.
I, likewise, and my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and grain; let us now release them from this burden.
Then Jacob gave Esau of the bread and of the pottage of lentils; and he ate and drank, and rose up, and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
And this is the manner of the release: everyone who has lent anything to his neighbour, causing him to be in debt, shall release it; he shall not exact it any more of his neighbour or of his brother, because the release of the LORD is proclaimed.
And the LORD gave the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they gave unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
For when the LORD thy God has blessed thee, as he promised thee, thou shalt lend unto many Gentiles, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many Gentiles, but they shall not rule over thee.
And if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive, what grace shall ye have? for sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much again.
But food does not make us more acceptable unto God; for neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worse.
Cursed be the day in which I was born; do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother, usury of money, usury of food, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury.
Without fail thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down that he may sleep in his own clothing and bless thee, and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy food for increase.
Hear another parable: There was a certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country,
For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Give to him that asks of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
For it is like a man travelling into a far country, who called his own slaves and delivered unto them his goods.
If thou should lend money to my people, to the poor who is with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
therefore, it was expedient for thee to have put my money to the bankers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with interest.
for forty days and was tempted of the devil. And in those days he ate nothing; and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
He that does not put out his money to usury nor take a bribe against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain unto thy land in its season and to bless all the work of thine hand. And thou shalt lend unto many Gentiles, and thou shalt not borrow.
Therefore go ye and learn what this is, 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 slave was moved with compassion and loosed him and forgave him the debt.
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.