Thematic Bible: Credit system


Thematic Bible



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. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

A man void of understanding gives pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSecurityShaking HandsDebt

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger: and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman. Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Be not one of them that gives pledges, or of them that become surety for debts. Verse ConceptsCreditBeing In DebtShaking HandsDebtResponsibility

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

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. Verse ConceptsCreditCreditorsInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses OfCapitalismBankslent

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. Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanCovetousness, Example Of

He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Verse ConceptsCreditorsGreed, Condemnation OfInterestKindnessMoney, Stewardship OfUnjust GainBlessings For Those Who Help The PoorChargeSaving Moneyinvestingpity

Take you no interest from him, or profit: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourFear God!lent

He that puts not out his money at interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved. Verse ConceptsCreditAcceptance Of BribesInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfImmovable SaintsNot MovedAvoiding BribesBriberyMoney Blessingslent

He that has not lent money for interest, neither has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending




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. Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtLendingRepaying DebtDuties To NeighboursBorrowingLosing Someone

Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels outside of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. Verse ConceptsBorrowing, Examples OfDebtpotdrums

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. Verse ConceptsAxesLendingLossThings Falling


But you shall open your hand wide unto him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks. Verse ConceptsNeedCreditorsInterestSaints, Care For The PoorAlmsgivingAltruismCharity

He is ever merciful, and lends; and his descendants are blessed. Verse ConceptsCharacter Of SaintsBlessing Through God's People



For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by the time the sun goes down: Verse ConceptsThe SunDressSunsetsLaws About Pledges

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

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. Verse ConceptsCreditGuaranteeDrinking WineAccused Of DrunkennessFine As PenaltyInterlopers In The Temple

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

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. Verse ConceptsCreditLonelinessPoverty, Causes OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Believers AttitudesSchool Of ProphetsServanthood, In SocietySlavery, In OtSuffering, HardshipOppression, Examples OfCreditorsFear Of God, Examples OfDebtorsWidowsSons Of The ProphetsTwo SonsActual WidowsslaveryGodly WomanDebtSchoolBeing A Woman Of GodLeaving Parents For Spouse

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.

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

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.

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. Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money