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Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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Deuteronomy 28:12
Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

Deuteronomy 15:6
For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Deuteronomy 28:44
He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

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Psalms 37:21
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

Exodus 22:14
“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

2 Kings 6:5
But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”

Matthew 5:42
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

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2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

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