Credit

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

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?

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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

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

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

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

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

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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 →

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

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

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

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

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.

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

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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. — read the full passage →

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

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.

“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.

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.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. — read the full passage →

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

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

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

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

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.

But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. — read the full passage →

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

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

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

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

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

The foreigner who is in your midst will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower. — read the full passage →

You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest. — read the full passage →

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,

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.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

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