TOPICAL BIBLE
Debt
16 references in this topic.
Exodus 22:25If 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.Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,Exodus 22:27because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.Deuteronomy 24:6Do 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 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.Deuteronomy 24:11You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.Deuteronomy 24:12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;Deuteronomy 24:13be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.Nehemiah 5:3Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”Nehemiah 5:4Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.Proverbs 11:15He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.Proverbs 22:26Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.Romans 13:8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
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