Thematic Bible: Debts


Thematic Bible



My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another, You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSecurityShaking HandsDebt

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men. Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts: Verse ConceptsCreditBeing In DebtShaking HandsDebtResponsibility

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. Verse ConceptsCreditCreditorsInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses OfCapitalismBankslent

And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest. Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanCovetousness, Example Of

He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor. Verse ConceptsCreditorsGreed, Condemnation OfInterestKindnessMoney, Stewardship OfUnjust GainBlessings For Those Who Help The PoorChargeSaving Moneyinvestingpity

Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourFear God!lent


And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man, Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: Verse ConceptsThe SunDressSunsetsLaws About Pledges

No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing. Verse ConceptsCreditGuaranteeDrinking WineAccused Of DrunkennessFine As PenaltyInterlopers In The Temple

And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents. And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

And 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. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord? And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.

So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons. Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money


My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another, You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSecurityShaking HandsDebt

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men. Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts: Verse ConceptsCreditBeing In DebtShaking HandsDebtResponsibility

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. Verse ConceptsCreditCreditorsInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses OfCapitalismBankslent

And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest. Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanCovetousness, Example Of

He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor. Verse ConceptsCreditorsGreed, Condemnation OfInterestKindnessMoney, Stewardship OfUnjust GainBlessings For Those Who Help The PoorChargeSaving Moneyinvestingpity

Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourFear God!lent


And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man, Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: Verse ConceptsThe SunDressSunsetsLaws About Pledges

No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing. Verse ConceptsCreditGuaranteeDrinking WineAccused Of DrunkennessFine As PenaltyInterlopers In The Temple

And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents. And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

And 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. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord? And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.

So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons. Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money


And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents. And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

And 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. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord? And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.

So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons. Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money


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