Thematic Bible: Debts


Thematic Bible



My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger, [if] you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, [if] you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,

The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

A person who lacks {sense} {pledges}; he becomes security before his neighbor. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSecurityShaking HandsDebt

Take his garment, for he has given security [to] a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner--take it as pledge. Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Do not be with those who {give a pledge} {by becoming} surety. Verse ConceptsCreditBeing In DebtShaking HandsDebtResponsibility

Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

" 'If you lend money [to] my people, [to] the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not {charge him interest}. Verse ConceptsCreditCreditorsInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses OfCapitalismBankslent

I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them, Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanCovetousness, Example Of


You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you. Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourFear God!lent

He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against [the] innocent. He who does these [things] will never be shaken. Verse ConceptsCreditAcceptance Of BribesInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfImmovable SaintsNot MovedAvoiding BribesBriberyMoney Blessingslent

[and] {he does not charge interest} and he takes no usury, [and] he holds back his hand from injustice [and] he executes judgment of fairness between {persons}, Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending

"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off [the] clothes of [the] naked. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown, Verse ConceptsThe SunDressSunsetsLaws About Pledges

"A person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for {he is taking necessities of life as a pledge}. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God. Verse ConceptsCreditGuaranteeDrinking WineAccused Of DrunkennessFine As PenaltyInterlopers In The Temple

And [when] he began to settle [them], someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents. And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.

There were also those saying, "We have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine." Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

And he summoned each one of his own master's debtors [and] said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, 'Take your promissory note and sit down quickly [and] write fifty.'

So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over." Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money


My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger, [if] you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, [if] you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,

The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

A person who lacks {sense} {pledges}; he becomes security before his neighbor. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSecurityShaking HandsDebt

Take his garment, for he has given security [to] a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner--take it as pledge. Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Do not be with those who {give a pledge} {by becoming} surety. Verse ConceptsCreditBeing In DebtShaking HandsDebtResponsibility

Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

" 'If you lend money [to] my people, [to] the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not {charge him interest}. Verse ConceptsCreditCreditorsInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses OfCapitalismBankslent

I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them, Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanCovetousness, Example Of


You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you. Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourFear God!lent

He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against [the] innocent. He who does these [things] will never be shaken. Verse ConceptsCreditAcceptance Of BribesInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfImmovable SaintsNot MovedAvoiding BribesBriberyMoney Blessingslent

[and] {he does not charge interest} and he takes no usury, [and] he holds back his hand from injustice [and] he executes judgment of fairness between {persons}, Verse ConceptsExcessGreed, Believers' Response ToInterestLending

"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off [the] clothes of [the] naked. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown, Verse ConceptsThe SunDressSunsetsLaws About Pledges

"A person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for {he is taking necessities of life as a pledge}. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge. Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God. Verse ConceptsCreditGuaranteeDrinking WineAccused Of DrunkennessFine As PenaltyInterlopers In The Temple

And [when] he began to settle [them], someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents. And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.

There were also those saying, "We have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine." Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

And he summoned each one of his own master's debtors [and] said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, 'Take your promissory note and sit down quickly [and] write fifty.'

So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over." Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money


And [when] he began to settle [them], someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents. And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.

There were also those saying, "We have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine." Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

And he summoned each one of his own master's debtors [and] said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, 'Take your promissory note and sit down quickly [and] write fifty.'

So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over." Verse ConceptsTradeDebtMoney ManagementSaving Money