CREDITOR

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• Exodus 21:2

  “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

• Exodus 21:3

  If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

• Exodus 21:4

  If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

• Exodus 21:5

  But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

• Exodus 21:6

  then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

• Exodus 22:25

  “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

• Exodus 22:26

  If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

• Exodus 22:27

  for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

• Leviticus 25:14

  “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

• Leviticus 25:15

  According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

• Leviticus 25:16

  According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

• Leviticus 25:17

  You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 25:35

  “‘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.

• Leviticus 25:36

  Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

• Leviticus 25:37

  You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

• Deuteronomy 15:2

  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.

• Deuteronomy 15:3

  Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

• Deuteronomy 23:19

  You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

• Deuteronomy 23:20

  You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 24:6

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

• Deuteronomy 24:10

  When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

• Deuteronomy 24:11

  You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.

• Deuteronomy 24:12

  If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

• Deuteronomy 24:13

  You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 24:17

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

• 2 Kings 4:1

  Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out 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.”

• Nehemiah 5:1

  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

• Nehemiah 5:2

  For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Nehemiah 5:6

  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  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.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 5:12

  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 5:13

  Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even be he shaken out, and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

• Job 20:18

  That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

• Job 20:19

  For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

• Job 20:20

  “Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

• Job 22:6

  For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

• Job 24:3

  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

• Job 24:9

  There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

• Psalms 112:5

  It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

• Proverbs 22:26

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

• Proverbs 22:27

  If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

• Matthew 5:25

  Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

• Matthew 5:26

  Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

• Matthew 5:42

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

• Matthew 18:23

  Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

• Matthew 18:24

  When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

• Matthew 18:25

  But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

• Matthew 18:26

  The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’

• Matthew 18:27

  The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

• Matthew 18:28

  “But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

• Matthew 18:29

  “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’

• Matthew 18:30

  He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

• Matthew 18:31

  So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.

• Matthew 18:32

  Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

• Matthew 18:33

  Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

• Matthew 18:34

  His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

• Matthew 18:35

  So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

• Luke 6:34

  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.

• Luke 7:41

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

• Luke 7:42

  When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

• Luke 7:43

  Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most.” He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”

• Luke 12:58

  For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

• Luke 12:59

  I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny. ”