Financial 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.”

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

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. — 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 you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

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.

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

“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.”

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

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.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

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.

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

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.”

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

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

“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

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

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

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

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

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 →

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

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.

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.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. — read the full passage →

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.”

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 →

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 →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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.

“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 →

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.

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.

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

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

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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 →

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.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. — read the full passage →

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

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

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

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

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

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: — read the full passage →

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;

“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.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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 →

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

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 →

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

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.

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

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

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

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 →

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 →