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Verb danizō (to lend, to borrow) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 5: 42 | Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow (danizō) from you. |
Luke
| 6: 34 | If you lend (danizō) to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend (danizō) to sinners, to receive as much again. |
| 6: 35 | But love your enemies, do good, and lend (danizō), expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. |
Deuteronomy (LXX)
| 15: 6 | (for the Lord thy God has blessed thee in the way of which he spoke to thee,) then thou shalt lend (danizō) to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow (danizō); and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee. |
| 15: 8 | Thou shalt surely open thine hands to him, and shalt lend (danizō) to him as much as he wants according to his need. |
| 15: 10 | Thou shalt surely give to him, and thou shalt lend (danizō) him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and thou shalt not grudge in thine heart as thou givest to him, because on this account the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all things on which thou shalt lay thine hand. |
| 28: 12 | May the Lord open to thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain to thy land in season: may he bless all the works of thy hands: so shalt thou lend (danizō) to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow (danizō); and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee. |
| 28: 44 | He shall lend (danizō) to thee, and thou shalt not lend (danizō) to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. |
Isaiah (LXX)
| 24: 2 | And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the one lending (danizō) as the one borrowing (danizō), and the debtor as his creditor. |
Nehemiah (LXX : Esdras B)
| 5 (15): 4 | And some said, We have borrowed (danizō) money for the king's tributes:- our fields, and our vineyards, and houses are pledged. |
Proverbs (LXX)
| 19: 17 | He that has pity on the poor lends (danizō) to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift. |
| 20: 4 | A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows (danizō) corn in harvest. |
| 22: 7 | The rich will rule over the poor, and servants will lend (danizō) to their own masters. |
Sirach (LXX)
| 8: 12 | Lend (danizō) not unto him that is mightier than thyself; for if thou lendest (danizō) him, count it but lost. |
| 20: 15 | He giveth little, and upbraideth much; he openeth his mouth like a crier; to day he lendeth (danizō), and to morrow will he ask it again: such an one is to be hated of God and man. |
| 29: 1 | He that is merciful will lend (danizō) unto his neighbour; and he that strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments. |
| 29: 2 | Lend (danizō) to thy neighbour in time of his need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due season. |
Wisdom (LXX)
| 15: 16 | For man made them, and he that borrowed (danizō) his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself. |
4 Maccabees (LXX)
| 2: 8 | A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, straightway puts force upon his own disposition; lending (danizō) to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming sabbath. |
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