What Does the Bible Say About Loaning People Money?

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...

Acts 2:45 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Leviticus 25:35-55 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: ...

Acts 17:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Acts 4:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold

Acts 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”

Luke 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

1 John 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ...

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ...

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— ...

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

2 Corinthians 9:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints, for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be. Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident. So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction. ...

1 Corinthians 7:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

John 17:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

John 6:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

34 Bible Verses about Loaning People Money

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:45 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:35-55 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 17:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Corinthians 9:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:1-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 6:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Loaning People Money

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Acts 2:45 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:45 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:35-55 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 17:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Corinthians 9:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:1-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 6:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote