Paying Back What You Owe

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

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 →

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 →

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

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

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

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

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.”

But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

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

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

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

“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 →

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

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 →

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

“‘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 →

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 →

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

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

to fulfill Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I will restore it to you.”

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. — 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. — read the full passage →

If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

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.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways. — read the full passage →

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →