Debt

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Romans 13:8 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Security for

• Exodus 22:25–27 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in…
• Deuteronomy 24:6 Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
• Deuteronomy 24:10–13 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you. If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession; be sure to return it to him by suns…
• Nehemiah 5:3–4 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.” Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
• Job 22:6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
• Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
• Proverbs 11:15 He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
• Proverbs 22:26 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
• Amos 2:8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

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