Thematic Bible: Sometimes entirely remitted debts


Thematic Bible



Also, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please stop [taking] this interest. Please restore to them this day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, their houses, and the interest on the money, the grain, the grape juice, and the olive oil that you have been taking from them." So they said, "We will restore it and will not request [anything more]. So we will do as you say." Then I called the priests and made them take an oath to do this promise.


[When] they were not able to repay [him], he forgave [the debts] of both. Now which of them will love him more?" Verse ConceptsPeople Forgiving OthersUnable To Do Other ThingsDebtLove And Forgiveness