31 Bible Verses about Being In Debt
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To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,
The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.
'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
The purposes of the diligent are only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.
Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.
for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee as He hath spoken to thee; and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou hast not borrowed; and thou hast ruled over many nations, and over thee they do not rule.
A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.
Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow.
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens. If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
'At the end of seven years thou dost make a release, and this is the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan is to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;
Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler, She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.
on every first day of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;
Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.
Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'
Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.
therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these; but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content; I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;
And when a man doth ask anything from his neighbour, and it hath been hurt or hath died -- its owner not being with it -- he doth certainly repay;
'And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,
for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;
'For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?
A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.
to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.
for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
