32 Bible Verses about lent
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Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent 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 doth curse me.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; 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 lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.
And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
But meat commendeth 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 wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, 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 victuals for increase.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
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 putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth 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 his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, 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 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.