Thematic Bible: Credit system
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Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,
The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.
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One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
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Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
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Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.
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Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
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Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.
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I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them
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Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
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Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.
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who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
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does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,
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Credit system » Borrowing
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
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The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
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The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
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"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.
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Then he said, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.
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But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed."
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Credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
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but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
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He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
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It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
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Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,
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"No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in 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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they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
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Credit system » Creditors, general references to
"No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in 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 the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."
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Credit system » Debts » Insolvency acknowledged
When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Credit system » Debts » Secured by mortgages
There were also those who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine."
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Credit system » Debts » Fraudulent settlement of
So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' He said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
Credit system » Debts » Not to be repudiated
She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest."
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Credit system » Debts » Obligation to pay
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
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