31 Bible Verses about Being In Debt

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.

Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.

A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts: If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt. This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.

All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

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

He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.

Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed? Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things: But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself. It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need. I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.