Thematic Bible: Credit system
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Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another, You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
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A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
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Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
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Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:
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Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
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Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.
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And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.
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He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
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Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.
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And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,
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Credit system » Borrowing
Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
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The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
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The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
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If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.
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Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.
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But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.
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Credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
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But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.
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All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.
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All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
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But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
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Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
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If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:
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No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
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They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
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By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
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Credit system » Creditors, general references to
No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
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They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
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Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
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Credit system » Debts » Insolvency acknowledged
And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents. And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
Credit system » Debts » Secured by mortgages
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
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Credit system » Debts » Fraudulent settlement of
And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord? And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.
Credit system » Debts » Not to be repudiated
So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.
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Credit system » Debts » Obligation to pay
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
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