Thematic Bible: Credit system
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Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
My son, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, thou hast fastened thine hand with another man: yea, thou art bound with thine own words, and taken with thine own speech.
The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.
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Whoso promiseth by the hand, and is surety for another; he is a fool.
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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.
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Be not thou one of them that bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt;
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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.
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Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress him with usury.
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and I advised so in my mind, that I rebuked the councilors and the rulers, and said unto them, "Will ye require usury one of another?" And I brought a great congregation against them,
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Whoso increaseth his riches by vantage and winning, let him gather them to help the poor withal.
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And thou shalt take none usury of him, nor yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
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He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.
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he lendeth nothing upon usury; he taketh nothing over; he withdraweth his hand from doing wrong; he handleth faithfully betwixt man and man;
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Credit system » Borrowing
Give to him that asketh, and from him that would borrow, turn not away.
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The rich ruleth the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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The ungodly borroweth, and payeth not again, but the righteous is merciful and liberal.
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When a man borroweth ought of his neighbor if it be hurt or else die, and if the owner thereof be not by, he shall make it good:
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And he said, "Go and borrow thee in other places, of all thy neighbours, empty vessels - and that not a few.
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And as one was heaving of a beam, the axe head fell into the water. And he cried out and said, "Alas, master, for it was lent me."
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Credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to him that asketh, and from him that would borrow, turn not away.
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But open thine hand unto him and lend him sufficient for his need which he hath.
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The righteous is ever merciful, and lendeth gently; therefore shall his seed be blessed.
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A good man is merciful, and lendeth gladly, and pondereth his words with discretion.
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Wherefore, love ye your enemies, do good, and lend, looking for nothing again: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the highest: for he is kind unto the unkind, and to the evil.
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Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
Thou hast taken the pledge from thy brethren for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing;
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If thou take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, see that thou deliver it unto him again by that the sun go down.
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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for then he taketh a man's life to pledge.
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that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
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they lie beside every altar upon clothes taken to pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink the wine of the oppressed.
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Credit system » Creditors, general references to
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for then he taketh a man's life to pledge.
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that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
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And there cried a certain woman of the wives of the children of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, "Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD. And the creditor is come to fetch my two sons, to be his bondmen."
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Credit system » Debts » Insolvency acknowledged
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents: Whom, because he had nought to pay, his Master commanded him to be sold: and his wife, and his children, and all that he had; and payment to be made.
Credit system » Debts » Secured by mortgages
Some said, "Let us set our lands, vineyards, and houses, to pledge, and take up corn in the dearth."
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Credit system » Debts » Fraudulent settlement of
Then called he all his master's debtors, and said unto the first, 'How much owest thou unto my master?' And he said, 'An hundred tonnes of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take thy 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 and sell the oil and pay thy creditor. And live, thou and thy children, off the rest."
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Credit system » Debts » Obligation to pay
Owe nothing to any man: but to love one another. For he that loveth another, fulfilleth the law.
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