Being In Debt

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

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

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. — read the full passage →

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

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.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. — read the full passage →

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. — read the full passage →

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. — read the full passage →

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger. — read the full passage →

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding? — read the full passage →

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets 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.” — read the full passage →

but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. — read the full passage →

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest. — read the full passage →

“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.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.