26 Bible Verses about Debt

"So he called to him each of his master's debtors and said to the first, 'How much money do you owe my master?'

"So then the master pitied his slave, and let him go, and forgave him his debt.

"I take it," said Simon, "the one he forgave the most."

Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.

Therefore, brothers, we are debtors??ut not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

"And since he was unable to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, toward the payment of the debt.

blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.

"But when he began to settle, one of them was brought before him who owed him fifteen million dollars.

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

"But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

Now if a man earn his pay by his work, it is not counted to him as a favor, but it is paid him as a debt;

"There were once to men," said Jesus, "in debt to one money-lender. One owed him fifty pounds; the other five.

"But on his way out, that slave met a fellow slave who owed him fifty dollars. Seizing him by the throat, and nearly choking him, he exclaimed, "'Pay me what you owe me!'

To Greeks and to barbarians, to the cultured and to the uncultured, I have a debt to discharge.

"To a second he said, 'How much do you owe?' "The man answered, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' "'Here is you bill,' he said, 'change it to eighty measures.'

"When they had nothing pay he forgave them with such charm. "Tell me, then, which of these will love him most?"

"Then in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, until he should pay him all his debt.

And if he has wronged you at all, or is owing you anything, charge that to me.

And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors;

"Immediately his master summoned him and said: "'You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you implored me.

Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods.

But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.

who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.