Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Don't be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans. If you have no money to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you.
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.
Debt » Security for
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
who put up security for loans.
“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
Verse Concepts
on garments taken as collateral,
and in the house of their God,
they drink wine obtained through fines.
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.
"If you lend money to My people-to the poor person among you, you must not be like a moneylender to him; you must not charge him interest. "If you ever take your neighbor's cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset. For it is his only covering; it is the clothing for his body. What will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will listen because I am compassionate.
"When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security. You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you. If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in [the garment] he has given as security. read more.
Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.
Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.
Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine." Still others were saying, "We have borrowed money to pay the king's tax on our fields and vineyards.
Surety » Who is sure
The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil- he will dwell on the heights; his refuge will be the rocky fortresses, his food provided, his water assured.
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.
Surety » Those that are surety for a stranger
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.
Surety » Those that hate suretyship
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.