'Loan' in the Bible
"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them.
"A person sins against the LORD by acting treacherously toward his neighbor regarding something entrusted to his care, regarding security for a loan, robbery, if he has oppressed his neighbor,
You are not to loan him money with interest or sell him your food at a profit.
This is the way to conduct remission: every creditor must cancel the loan that his friend borrowed, and he must not pressure his friend or brother to repay it, because remission to the LORD will be proclaimed.
"Don't take a pair of millstones, especially the upper millstone, as collateral for a loan, because this means taking a man's livelihood.
"When you loan something to your neighbor, don't enter his house to seize what he offered as collateral.
Stay outside and let the man to whom you made the loan bring it out to you.
"Don't deny justice to a foreigner or to an orphan, nor take a widow's garment as collateral for a loan.
It happened that as one of them was felling a beam, his axe head fell into the water. He cried out, "Oh no! Master! The axe was on loan to me!"
They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the ox of the widow as security for a loan;
"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.
who does not loan his money with interest, and who does not take a bribe against those who are innocent. The one who does these things will stand firm forever. A special Davidic Psalm.
My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor, if you have agreed to a deal with a stranger,
Securing a loan for a stranger will bring suffering, but by refusing to do so, one remains safe.
A man who lacks sense cosigns a loan, becoming a guarantor for his neighbor.
doesn't refuse to help the afflicted, or refuses to loan with usury or exact interest, but instead follows my ordinances and lives his life consistent with my statutes. He won't die because of his father's sin, will he? No! He'll certainly live.
returning what has been placed as collateral for a loan, paying back what he has taken, following the regulations that promote life, and committing no iniquity, he will certainly live, and not die.