Thematic Bible: Credit system
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Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger, thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
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A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.
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Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.
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Be thou not one of those who strike hands, [or] of those who are sureties for debts.
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Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge [who is surety] for a strange woman.
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Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
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Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the ranking men and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.
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He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
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Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
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he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
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he who has not given forth upon interest, nor has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed TRUE justice between man and man,
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Credit system » Borrowing
Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.
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The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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The wicked man borrows, and pays not again, but the righteous man deals graciously, and gives.
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And if a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
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Then he said, Go, borrow for thee vessels abroad from all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
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But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water. And he cried, and said, Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.
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Credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.
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but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.
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All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.
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It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He shall maintain his cause in judgment,
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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.
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Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
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No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.
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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge. And in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
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Credit system » Creditors, general references to
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.
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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo
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Credit system » Debts » Insolvency acknowledged
And when he began to settle, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him. But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made.
Credit system » Debts » Secured by mortgages
There were some also who said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain because of the dearth.
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Credit system » Debts » Fraudulent settlement of
And having summoned each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much do thou owe to my lord? And he said, A hundred measures of olive oil. And he said to him, Receive thy document, and having sat down, quickly write fifty.
Credit system » Debts » Not to be repudiated
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons from the rest.
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Credit system » Debts » Obligation to pay
Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law.
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