DEBT

Passages on this topic · 16

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Job 22:6

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

• Job 24:9

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

• Proverbs 11:15

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

• Proverbs 22:26

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

• Amos 2:8

  and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

• Romans 13:8

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