Borrowing

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Asking for and receiving money or goods for temporary use as a neighbourly kindness.

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Believers should respond to requests to borrow

Matthew 5:42 NRSV
Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.
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God’s blessing on Israel made borrowing unnecessary

Deuteronomy 28:12 NRSV
The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
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The responsibilities of those who borrow

Repayment

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Restitution

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Borrowing can bring debt and servitude

Proverbs 22:7 NRSV
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
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Security for borrowing

Warnings against putting up security

Proverbs 11:15 NRSV
To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble, but there is safety in refusing to do so.
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Security may be required

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Security must be just

Deuteronomy 24:6 NRSV
No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
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Jesus Christ was willing to borrow

Examples of borrowing

Luke 5:3 NRSV
He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
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