Thematic Bible: Credit system
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Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
My son, if you serve as surety for your friend and you give your pledge to him, You are snared with the words of your mouth. You are captured by the words of your mouth!
Righteousness of the undefiled [man of integrity] directs his way! Wickedness causes the evil to fall.
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A man without understanding shakes hands and becomes surety for his friend.
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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and hold it as a pledge for a seductress.
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Do not give pledges and be guarantors for debts.
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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take him as pledge as surety for a fornicator.
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Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.
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After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers. I organized a big meeting of protest.
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He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
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Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives.
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The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never fall or be upset.
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If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,
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Credit system » Borrowing
Give to those who ask. Lend to those who borrow.
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The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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The wicked borrows and does not pay back. But the righteous is gracious and gives.
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Whenever someone borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, the borrower must make up for the loss.
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Ask your neighbors for empty jars. Borrow as many as you can, Elisha told her.
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One of them was cutting down a tree when suddenly his ax head fell in the water. It was a borrowed ax, he exclaimed to Elisha. What will I do?
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Credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to those who ask. Lend to those who borrow.
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Be generous to these poor people. Freely lend them as much as they need. Never be hardhearted and stingy with them.
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He is always generous and lends freely. His descendants are a blessing.
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All goes well for the person who is generous and lends willingly. He earns an honest living.
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Love your enemies and do good to them. Lend expecting nothing in return and your reward will be great. You will be sons of the Most High for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
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Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
You have indeed exacted pledges from your family for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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If you take someone's cloak as a pledge that he will pay you, you must give it back to him before the sunsets,
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Do not take a hand mill or an upper millstone as security for a debt. That would be taking away a man's livelihood.
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They drive away the donkey of the orphan. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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They lie down beside every altar on clothes taken from indebtedness. In the house of their God they drink the wine they have confiscated.
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Credit system » Creditors, general references to
Do not take a hand mill or an upper millstone as security for a debt. That would be taking away a man's livelihood.
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They drive away the donkey of the orphan. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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The widow of a member of a group of prophets said to Elisha: My husband has died! As you know, he was a man who respected God. A man to whom he owed money came to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.
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Credit system » Debts » Insolvency acknowledged
First, one came to him who owed him ten thousand talents. He was not able to make payment. So his lord gave orders for him to be sold. His wife, sons, and daughters were all to be sold along with every possession. The money would be used for payment of what he owed.
Credit system » Debts » Secured by mortgages
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
He called all the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one: 'How much do you owe my master?' One hundred barrels of olive oil,' he said. 'Here is your bill,' he told him; 'settle for fifty.'
Credit system » Debts » Not to be repudiated
She returned to Elisha, the prophet. He said: Sell the olive oil and pay all your debts. There will be enough money left over for you and your sons to pay your living expenses.
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Credit system » Debts » Obligation to pay
Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law.
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