Quotes about Lending
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
- Oscar Wilde
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Exodus 22:25
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
- Leviticus 25:37
When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
- Deuteronomy 15:6
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
- Deuteronomy 15:8
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
- Deuteronomy 23:19
You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 23:20
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
- Deuteronomy 24:10
You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
- Deuteronomy 24:11
The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
- Deuteronomy 28:12
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- Deuteronomy 28:44
I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
- Nehemiah 5:10