BIBLE VERSES/ SCRIPTURES ON DEBT

Romans 13:8
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

Matthew 18:27
The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

Matthew 18:32
“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives

Proverbs 22:7
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Matthew 18:21-26
21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of goldwas brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt. 26 “At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’

Matthew 18:30
“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.

Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Deuteronomy 24:6
Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.

Proverbs 22:26
Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

Proverbs 22:26-27
26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; 27 if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.

Job 24:9
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

Nehemiah 10:3
“When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts.

1 Samuel 22:2
All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.

Deuteronomy 15:1-2
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the LORD’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.

Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously;

Proverbs 11:15
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.

Exodus 22:25-27
“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. 26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, 27 because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Exodus 22:25
25 “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20
19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. 20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:12
12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

Matthew 6:24
24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Deuteronomy 24:10-13
When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge. 11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. 12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession. 13 Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.

Job 22:6
You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.

Amos 2:8
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.

Matthew 5:42
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.

Proverbs 28:8
Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

Romans 13:7
Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Deuteronomy 15:7
If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.

Matthew 25:27
Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

Leviticus 25:47
‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

Leviticus 25:39
“ ‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

Isaiah 50:1
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Deuteronomy 28:1
If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

1 Timothy 5:8
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.