8 Bible Verses about Repaying Debt
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The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"--when you have it with you.
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.
Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax." And they brought him a denarius.read more.
And Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."