Thematic Bible: Credit system
Thematic Bible
Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have struck your hand with a stranger, You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
A man void of understanding gives pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.
Take his garment who is surety for a stranger: and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.
Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.
Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
If you lend money to any of my people who is poor among you, you shall not be to him as a lender, neither shall you charge him interest.
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, you exact interest, every one from his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.
He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Take you no interest from him, or profit: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.
He that puts not out his money at interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
He that has not lent money for interest, neither has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
Credit system » Borrowing
Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
And if a man borrow anything of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or dies, the owner of it being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels outside of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
But as one was cutting down a tree, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
Credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away.
But you shall open your hand wide unto him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.
A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by the time the sun goes down:
No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
And they lay themselves down upon clothes taken in pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Credit system » Creditors, general references to
No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.
Credit system » Debts » Insolvency acknowledged
And when he had begun the reckoning, one was brought unto him, who owed him ten thousand talents. But since he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Credit system » Debts » Secured by mortgages
Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine.
Credit system » Debts » Fraudulent settlement of
So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owe you unto my lord? And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly, and 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 your debt, and live you and your children from the rest.
Credit system » Debts » Obligation to pay
Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.