Bible Verses about “loans”
The Bible contains 33 verses about loans across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.”
“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.”
“The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.”
“"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.”
“"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.”
“Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.”
“You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.”
“Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.”
“You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:”
“to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.”
“If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?”
“He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.”
“Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.”
“My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;”
“You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.”
“Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.”
“Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.”
“It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.”