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Want to know what the Bible says about Loans? Here are 19 Bible verses about Loans from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 22:7 NIV
The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.
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Psalm 37:21 NIV
The wicked borrow and do not repay,
    but the righteous give generously;
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Romans 13:8 NIV
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
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Proverbs 22:26-27 NIV
26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge
    or puts up security for debts;
27 if you lack the means to pay,
    your very bed will be snatched from under you.
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1 Timothy 5:8 NIV
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Deuteronomy 23:19 NIV
Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.
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Luke 6:35 NIV
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
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Exodus 22:25 NIV
“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.
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Psalm 112:5 NIV
Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,
    who conduct their affairs with justice.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20 NIV
19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. 20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.
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Leviticus 25:35-37 NIV
35 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. 36 Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. 37 You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.
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Matthew 5:42 NIV
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
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Proverbs 28:8 NIV
Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor
    amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
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Proverbs 17:18 NIV
One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge
    and puts up security for a neighbor.
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Luke 6:38 NIV
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
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Proverbs 11:15 NIV
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer,
    but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.
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Romans 13:7-8 NIV
7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
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Deuteronomy 24:6 NIV
Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.
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Deuteronomy 24:10-13 NIV
10 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge. 11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. 12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession. 13 Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.
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