Debt

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

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.

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?

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

“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.

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

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

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.

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.

“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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

“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.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.”

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

“‘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 →

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.”

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.

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

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 →

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

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 →

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

“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.

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

Some also there were that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.” — read the full passage →

You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

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.

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

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

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.

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

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

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 →

Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

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.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

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.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath; if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do,

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;

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.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor. — read the full passage →

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

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.