Paying Debts

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

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

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 →

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

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

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.

“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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

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

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.

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. — 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 →

“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.

“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.

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.”

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

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

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

“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 →

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

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

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

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

“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.”

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 →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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

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

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.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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 →

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 →

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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

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

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. — read the full passage →

“‘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.

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

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“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 →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →