Bible Verses about “loaning money to people”

“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”

“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

“¶ ‹Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.›”

“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”

“‹Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.›”

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

“‹Therefore when thou doest› [thine] ‹alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.›”

“‹That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.›”

“‹But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:›”

“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”

“¶ The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender.”

“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”

“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”

“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”

“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”

“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”

“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”

“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”

“¶ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”

“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”

“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”

“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”

“¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”

“‹Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.›”

“That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;”

“‹Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and› [then] ‹at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.›”

“And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all [men], as every man had need.”

“And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.”

“¶ 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.”

“Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.”

“For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.”

“Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.”

“Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.”

“If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:”

“But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.”

“¶ Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.”

“Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:”

“Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.”

“He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.”