Paying Back What You Owe

The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving.

render, therefore, to all <FI>their<Fi> dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour. — read the full passage →

and if ye lend <FI>to those<Fi> of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners--that they may receive again as much. — read the full passage →

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, — read the full passage →

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

but having food and raiment--with these we shall suffice ourselves;

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the borrower to the lender.

Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering! — read the full passage →

Whoso is refusing instruction--poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury; — read the full passage →

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

and if ye lend <FI>to those<Fi> of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners--that they may receive again as much. — read the full passage →

Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand <FI>is<Fi> toward God to do <FI>it<Fi> . — read the full passage →

`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee; — read the full passage →

the sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low; — read the full passage →

having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

and the truth shall make you free.'

it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.

to fulfil the word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land hath enjoyed its sabbaths; all the days of the desolation it kept sabbath--to the fulness of seventy years.

`Lo, here <FI>am<Fi> I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? --and I restore to you.'

`Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure--the heavens--to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou--thou dost not borrow. — read the full passage →

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, — read the full passage →

`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

`When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years--then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought.

The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

`At the end of seven years thou dost make a release, — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

`Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways; — read the full passage →

A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. — read the full passage →