Debt

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Bible verses about “Debt”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Romans 13:8Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
• Exodus 22:25If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
• Exodus 22:26If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
• Exodus 22:27For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
• Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
• Deuteronomy 24:10When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
• Deuteronomy 24:11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
• Deuteronomy 24:12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
• Deuteronomy 24:13In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
• Nehemiah 5:3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
• Nehemiah 5:4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
• Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
• Proverbs 11:15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
• Proverbs 22:26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
• Amos 2:8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.