Paying Debt

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 →

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

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

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 →

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

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.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. — read the full passage →

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

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

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

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 →

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

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

Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” — read the full passage →

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

“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

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 →

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

“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.

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 →

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.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. — 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.”

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.

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

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?

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

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

“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.

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

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

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

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

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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

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 exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; — read the full passage →

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

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.”

“‘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 →

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

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

“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.

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.”

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

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

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

This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. — read the full passage →

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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

but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

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

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.

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

You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest. — read the full passage →

“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 →

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

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

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.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

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 →

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 →

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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 →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

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 →

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them, — read the full passage →

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.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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.

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.