Debt

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

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.

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?

“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.

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.

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

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

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.”

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

“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.”

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.”

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.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

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

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.”

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 →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — 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.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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.”

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.

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. — read the full passage →

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

“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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, — read the full passage →

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 →

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. — read the full passage →

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. — read the full passage →

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, — read the full passage →

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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