Bible Verses about “loans”

“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”

“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”

“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”

“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”

“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”

“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”

“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

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

“‹But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and› [to] ‹the evil.›”

“¶ The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.”

“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.”

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

“¶ 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:”

“Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.”

“If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?”

“¶ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.”

“Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.”

“¶ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,”

“Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.”

“Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.”

“Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.”

“A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.”