From Nave’s Topical Bible
Lending
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 21Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningExodus 22:25–27Leviticus 25:35–37Deuteronomy 15:1–11Deuteronomy 23:19Deuteronomy 23:20Deuteronomy 24:6Deuteronomy 24:10–13Deuteronomy 24:17Nehemiah 5:1–13Psalms 37:25Psalms 37:26Psalms 112:5Proverbs 19:17Proverbs 22:7Proverbs 28:8Isaiah 24:1Isaiah 24:2Ezekiel 18:13Matthew 5:42Luke 6:34
- See Borrowing
- See Interest
- See Money
The passages, in Bible order (21)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 22:25–27
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.
Commentary on Exodus 22:25–271 voice
There is a great deal about sharing and exchanging, but it is enough to say that the law forbids lending at interest to a brother. By brother it means not merely one born of the same parents but a member of the same tribe or one of the same faith, who shares in the same Logos. The law does not deem it right to collect interest on the capital. It seeks to enable free giving to those in need, with hands and minds wide open. God is the creator of this free gift.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 2, 215Patristic
- Leviticus 25:35–37
Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
Commentary on Leviticus 25:35–372 voices
And if thy brother be waxen poor,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Rather, And if thy brother (an Israelite) becomes poor and falls into decay with thee, thou shalt assist him and let him live with thee like a resident foreigner. He was not to be regarded as an outcast, but was to be treated with the same respect and consideration as a resident foreigner who, like him, could possess no land, but could accumulate property and live in comfort as a free man. See Lev 16:29 note.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Deuteronomy 15:1–11
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 15:1–111 voice
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. Not of servants, for they were not to be dismissed from their service until they had served six years, as is directed to in a following law; for if they were to be set free whenever a sabbatical year came, they might be discharged when they had not served more than a year, or than half a year, or than a month or two.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 23:19
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:191 voice
[Scripture] orders money to be returned without usury. It is a mark of kindly feeling to help one who has nothing. It is a sign of a hard nature to extort more than one has given. If one has need of your assistance because he has not enough of his own wherewith to repay a debt, is it not a wicked thing to demand under the guise of kindly feeling a larger sum from him who has not the means to pay off a lesser amount?
Ambrose of Milan· On the Duties of the Clergy 3.3.20, 397Patristic
- Deuteronomy 23:20
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.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:201 voice
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 24:6
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:62 voices
To take (accipere) means "to take away." Thus those birds that are eager to seize other birds are called hawks (accipiter). Paul says, "For you bear it, if anyone consumes you, if anyone takes you." The same would be true if he said, if anyone …
Paterius· EXPOSITION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, DEUTERONOMY 16, 606Patristic
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 24:10–13
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:10–131 voice
When thou dost lend thy brother anything,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:171 voice
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Nehemiah 5:1–13
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
Commentary on Nehemiah 5:1–132 voices
And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives, etc. Indeed, the people desired to build the city wall, but due to the great famine, they were hindered from the sacred work. This famine was caused not only by the shortage of …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
And there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives,.... Those of the poorer sort: against their brethren the Jews; the rich that oppressed them; and this cry or complaint was made to Nehemiah for redress.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 37:25
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
Commentary on Psalms 37:251 voice
If you take it at face value, the meaning is obvious: in his own lifetime, David never saw the just forsaken. But a lifespan is brief, and the statement is moreover incredible. We have seen plenty of just people in this world who have been forsaken by people as soon as those just ones are persecuted by people in power. No one dares to go near them so long as they are subject to fear and injury.
Ambrose of Milan· COMMENTARY ON TWELVE PSALMS 37:8, 397Patristic
- Psalms 37:26
They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
Commentary on Psalms 37:262 voices
(Verse 26.) But how can he be in need who has mercy and lends all day? What is it that the righteous person lends? Not bronze, not iron, not lead, but silver purified by fire. He brings this to the table of the Lord, and distributes it to those who seek it: to one person, to two, to five minas daily he distributes, and it never runs out. But we have heard that lending at interest is condemned in the Law, with Moses saying: You shall not lend at interest (Deuteronomy 23:19).
Ambrose of Milan· Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms, 397Patristic
He is ever merciful, and lendeth,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
Commentary on Psalms 112:52 voices
Delightful is the man who shows mercy and lends. Because the Lord is merciful and compassionate, let the righteous man too imitate his Lord: let him also be merciful. Delightful is the man who shows mercy and lends. Does someone suppose that he is speaking about gold and about silver and about money? The righteous have so far been without anything to lend to others that they themselves received their food from others. So then, if I have nothing to give, am I no longer righteous?
Jerome· Homily 38, on Psalm 111, 420Patristic
A good man showeth favour, and lendeth,.... Without usury, hoping for nothing again: he pities those that labour under difficulties, for want of a little money; and he generously lends it till they are able to pay him again; which oftentimes is of as much service as if it was given; see Psa 37:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 19:17
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:171 voice
If you help a poor person in the Name of the Lord, you are making a gift and at the same time granting a loan. You are making a gift because you have no expectation of being reimbursed by that poor person. You are granting a loan because the Lord will settle the account. It is not much that the Lord receives by means of the poor, but He will pay a great deal on their behalf.
Basil of Caesarea· Commentary (church-history corpus), 379Patristic
- Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:71 voice
"A rich man rules over the poor," etc. It is clear according to the letter; but also the rich in virtues in the judgment of the secret inspector rule over those who lack the riches of virtues, indeed they are future judges of them. And …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:82 voices
He that by usury - increaseth his substance - By taking unlawful interest for his money; lending to a man in great distress, money, for the use of which he requires an exorbitant sum. O that the names of all those unfeeling, hard-hearted, consummate villains in the nation, who thus take advantage of their neighbours necessities to enrich themselves, were published at every market cross; and then the delinquents all sent to their brother savages in New Zealand. It would be a happy riddance to the country.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance,.... By biting and oppressing the poor; letting him have money at an exorbitant interest, and goods at an exorbitant price, and so increases his substance in this scandalous manner; hence usury is in Lev 25:36, called "increase", and by the Greeks τοκος, a "birth", because money is the birth of money, as Aristotle (e) observes; and so by the Latins "foenus", as if it was "foetus" (f), "a birth".
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
Commentary on Isaiah 24:11 voice
(Chapter 24 - Verses 1 and following) Behold, the Lord will lay waste the earth, and make it desolate, and afflict its face, and scatter its inhabitants. And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor. The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic