The Bible has a lot to say about money, and if we read those scriptures, we will undoubtedly learn how to handle money. Since money is the source of all evil, we should manage it in accordance with God’s will if we want to enjoy mental peace.
Those who are in need should be given money, but we shouldn’t charge them any interest. God desires that we aid those who are in need. When God provides for us financially, we should thank him by helping the less fortunate.
We should also be aware that we shouldn’t borrow money from others unless we absolutely need it. We frequently just borrow money and spend it without giving it any thought. This subsequently becomes a habit, and the Lord desires to instil such evil habits in us since they will ultimately lead to our destruction.
God is aware of our wants and will meet them when the time is appropriate, so we should be patient. The most crucial item we require is the Lord’s wisdom, which will enable us to manage our finances in line with his will.
Let’s examine the following texts from the Bible to learn more about what the Lord has to say regarding borrowing and lending money.
Proverbs 22:7(KJV) The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Romans 13:8(KJV) Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Deuteronomy 28:12(KJV) The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Psalm 37:21(KJV) The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Matthew 5:42(KJV) Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Hebrews 13:5(KJV) Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Proverbs 28:20(KJV) A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Deuteronomy 15:7(KJV) If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Proverbs 22:26(KJV) Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Deuteronomy 28:44(KJV) He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Psalm 15:5(KJV) He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Exodus 22:25(KJV) If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Proverbs 13:11(KJV) Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
1 Timothy 6:10(KJV) For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Matthew 6:24(KJV) No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Romans 13:7(KJV) Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Ecclesiastes 5:5(KJV) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Ecclesiastes 5:10(KJV) He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Luke 14:28(KJV) For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
1 Samuel 2:7(KJV) The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Deuteronomy 23:19(KJV) Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Deuteronomy 8:18(KJV) But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Acts 8:20(KJV) But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Matthew 6:21(KJV) For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Leviticus 25:37(KJV) Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Luke 12:15(KJV) And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Proverbs 28:8(KJV) He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
1 Timothy 6:9(KJV) But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Luke 6:30(KJV) Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
Proverbs 23:4(KJV) Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Matthew 25:27(KJV) Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Ecclesiastes 7:12(KJV) For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Proverbs 11:28(KJV) He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Mark 8:36(KJV) For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Proverbs 11:4(KJV) Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 19:17(KJV) He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Exodus 22:14(KJV) And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
Revelation 3:17(KJV) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Luke 12:33(KJV) Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Luke 6:34(KJV) And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Proverbs 10:22(KJV) The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 22:2(KJV) The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
