13 Bible Verses about Creditors

And my heart will take counsel to me, and I shall contend with the nobles and the prefects, and say to them, Ye impose a debt each upon his brother. And I shall give a great convocation against them. And saying to them, We bought off our brethren the Jews, being sold to the nations; according to the sufficiency in us and also will ye sell your brethren? and were they sold to us? And they will be silent, and they found not a word. And it will be said, Not good the word which ye do: will ye not go in the fear of our God from the reproach of the nations our enemies?

They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox. They will turn the needy from the Way: the poor of the earth hid themselves together. Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young. read more.
In the field they will harvest his meslin, and they will glean the vintage of the unjust one. They will cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and no covering in the cold. They will be wet from the pouring rains of the mountains, and they embraced the rock from no shelter. They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor.

But that servant having come, found one of his fellow-servants who owed him one hundred drachmas, and having seized, he choked him, saying, Give back to me what thou owest. Then his fellow-servant having fallen at his feet besought him, saying, Be slow to anger towards me, and I will give back all to thee. . And he would not; but having departed he cast him into prison till he should give back that being owed.

Therefore the kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, the king, who wished to lift up the word together with his servants.

Be kindly disposed to thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thy opponent should deliver thee to the judge, and the judge should deliver thee to the assistant, and thou be cast into prison.

So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls.

And also I, my brethren and my young men exacting upon them silver and grain: we will leave off now this debt Turn back now to them according to this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, and the hundredth of the silver and the grain, the new wine and the new oil which ye impose upon them. And they will say, We will turn back, and we will not seek from them; thus will we do as thou sayest And I shall call the priests and shall cause them to swear to do according to this word.

And the lord of that servant, having felt compassion, loosed him, and let go to him the money lent.

And they not having to pay, he bestowed as a gift upon both. Which of them therefore will love him the more? Say thou.

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor.

And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.

Thou shalt not be with those striking the hand with those pledging for debts. If not to thee to requite, why shall he take thy bed from under thee?

The evil one shall become evil, for he became surety for a stranger: and he hating those striking hands being secure.

If thou shalt lend silver to my people being poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him, as lending; ye shall not put interest upon him.

Thou shalt not take from him interest and increase; thou shalt be afraid of thy God; and thy brother to live with thee. Thy silver thou shalt not give to him upon interest, and upon increase thou. shalt not give him thy food.

Thou shalt not be with those striking the hand with those pledging for debts.

My son, if thou becamest surety for thy friend, thou didst strike thy hands for a stranger;

Be kindly disposed to thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thy opponent should deliver thee to the judge, and the judge should deliver thee to the assistant, and thou be cast into prison.

And his lord having become angry, delivered him to the torturers even till he should give back all being owed to him.

And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.

If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve: and in the seventh he shall go forth free gratuitously.

And there will gather to him every man being pressed and every man which to him a creditor, and every man bitter of soul; and he will be for chief over them: and there will be with him about four hundred men.

And having called upon each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord And he said, An hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thou thy book, and having quickly sat down, write fifty. Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy book, and write eighty.

When thou shalt lend to thy friend the loan of any thing, thou shalt not go to his house to exchange his pledge: Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom was lent to him, shall bring out to thee the pledge without

And this the word of the remission: Every lord to release the lending of his hand which he shall put upon his friend; he shall not exact his friend and his brother, for a remission was called to Jehovah. Foreigners thou shalt exact of, and what shall be to thee with thy brother thine hand shall remit:

When thou shalt lend to thy friend the loan of any thing, thou shalt not go to his house to exchange his pledge:

To a foreigner thou shalt lend on interest; and to thy brother thou shalt not lend on interest: so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the stretching forth of thy hand upon the land which thou goest there to possess it

He shall not take the two mill-stones as a pledge, and the rider, for it is taking the soul as a pledge.

If taking in pledge, thou shalt take in pledge the garment of thy friend, at the going down of the sun thou shalt turn it back to him. For it is his covering alone; his garment for his nakedness in which he shall lie; and it was when he shall cry to me, and I heard, for I am compassionate.

And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.

And again to any man circumcised, I testify, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

And if he injured thee any, or is indebted, charge this to me.

And there are those saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses we pledge, and we will take grain in the famine.

And he said, An hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thou thy book, and having quickly sat down, write fifty. Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy book, and write eighty.