Question: In reading through the Bible, I found Romans 13:8 which says, “Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.” Does this mean that God never wants a Christian to borrow money? Response: My interpretation of Romans 13:8 is that the Apostle Paul was not referring directly to money. He was saying, don’t let people do something for you unless you’re willing to do even more for them. If Paul had been specifically telling Christians to never borrow money, I believe He would have made it absolutely clear, because then he would have been countermanding many other Scriptures that deal with borrowing money. In all of the 3,000 or so Bible verses that deal with money, borrowing or lending are not scripturally prohibited. We need to be careful not to build a doctrine out of a single verse but to take Scripture as a whole.