Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Don't be one of those who make promises to guarantee loans for debts. If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?
Securing a loan for a stranger will bring suffering, but by refusing to do so, one remains safe.
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Debt » Security for
"After all, you've taken collateral from your relatives for no reason; you stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Don't be one of those who make promises to guarantee loans for debts.
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"Don't take a pair of millstones, especially the upper millstone, as collateral for a loan, because this means taking a man's livelihood.
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They lay down beside every altar, on garments pledged as collateral, drinking wine paid for through fines imposed by the temple of their gods.
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"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.
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"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them. If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to return it to him by sunset, for it's his only covering; it's his outer garment, for what else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I'll hear him, for I am gracious.
"When you loan something to your neighbor, don't enter his house to seize what he offered as collateral. Stay outside and let the man to whom you made the loan bring it out to you. If he is a poor man, don't go to sleep with his collateral in your possession. read more.
Be sure to return his garment to him at sunset so that he may sleep with it, and he will bless you. It will be a righteous deed in the presence of the LORD your God.
Be sure to return his garment to him at sunset so that he may sleep with it, and he will bless you. It will be a righteous deed in the presence of the LORD your God.
Securing a loan for a stranger will bring suffering, but by refusing to do so, one remains safe.
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Others were saying, "We're having to mortgage our fields, our vineyards, and our homes so we can buy grain during this famine." Still others were saying "We've borrowed money against our fields and vineyards to pay the king's taxes.
Surety » Who is sure
The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil this is the one who will live on the heights; his refuge will be a mountain fortress. His food will be supplied, and his water will be guaranteed.
Securing a loan for a stranger will bring suffering, but by refusing to do so, one remains safe.
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Surety » Those that are surety for a stranger
Securing a loan for a stranger will bring suffering, but by refusing to do so, one remains safe.
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Surety » Those that hate suretyship
Securing a loan for a stranger will bring suffering, but by refusing to do so, one remains safe.
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