borrowing money

²¹The sinner will lend and not release, but the just one shows compassion and donates.

⁷The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

²⁶Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts. ²⁷For if you do not have the means to restore, what reason should there be for him to take the covering from your bed?

³⁵So truly, love your enemies. Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. And then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked.

²⁷Do not prevent him who is able from doing good. When you are able, do good yourself too. ²⁸Do not say to your friend: “Go away, and then return. Tomorrow I will give to you.” When you are able to do so, give in the present.

²⁵If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury. ²⁶If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun. ²⁷For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

¹²The Lord will open his excellent treasury, the heavens, so that it may distribute rain in due time. And he will bless all the works of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you yourself will borrow nothing from anyone.

⁴²Whoever asks of you, give to him. And if anyone would borrow from you, do not turn away from him.

⁵Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”

²⁰A faithful man shall be greatly praised. But whoever rushes to become rich will not be innocent.

²⁶Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts.

¹⁷Whoever loves a feast will be in deprivation. Whoever loves wine and fatness will not be enriched.

⁷If one of your brothers, who dwells within the gates of your city, in the land which the Lord your God will give to you, falls into poverty, you shall not harden your heart, nor tighten your hand.

⁸if he has not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase, if he has averted his hand from iniquity, and has executed true judgment between man and man,

⁶Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom. ⁷For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader, ⁸she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat. ⁹How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep? ¹⁰You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep, ¹¹and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

²⁶Amen I say to you, that you shall not go forth from there, until you have repaid the last quarter.