Bible Verses of Debt

Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Romans 13:7

Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.

Proverbs 27:13

if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.

Proverbs 22:27

Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

Proverbs 22:26

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Proverbs 22:7

One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor.

Proverbs 17:18

Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.

Proverbs 11:15

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Proverbs 6:5

Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

Proverbs 6:4

So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor`s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion— and give your neighbor no rest!

Proverbs 6:3

you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.

Proverbs 6:2

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

Proverbs 6:1

lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.

Proverbs 5:10

“When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts.

Nehemiah 10:31

In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

Matthew 18:34

Shouldn`t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?`

Matthew 18:33

“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,` he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

Matthew 18:32

When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.

Matthew 18:31

“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.

Matthew 18:30

“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.`

Matthew 18:29

“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!` he demanded.

Matthew 18:28

The servant`s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

Matthew 18:27

“At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,` he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.`

Matthew 18:26

Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

Matthew 18:25

As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him.

Matthew 18:24

“Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

Matthew 18:23

They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar`s,” they replied.

Mark 12:16

He said to them, “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar`s, and to God what is God`s.”

Luke 20:25

“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar`s,” they replied.

Luke 20:24

Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

Luke 20:22

then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Job 31:40

if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

Job 31:39

Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey.

Habakkuk 2:7

If you take your neighbor`s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,

Exodus 22:26

“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.

Exodus 22:25

But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.

Exodus 22:15

“If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.

Exodus 22:14

If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.

Exodus 22:13

But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner.

Exodus 22:12

the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the Lord that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person`s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required.

Exodus 22:11

“If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking,

Exodus 22:10

In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, ‘This is mine,` both parties are to bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges declare guilty must pay back double to the other.

Exodus 22:9

But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person`s property.

Exodus 22:8

“If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor`s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.

Exodus 22:7

“If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.

Exodus 22:6

“If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else`s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.

Exodus 22:5

If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—they must pay back double.

Exodus 22:4

but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. “Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.

Exodus 22:3

“Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

Exodus 22:1

However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.

Exodus 21:36

“If anyone`s bull injures someone else`s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.

Exodus 21:35

the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.

Exodus 21:34

“If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Exodus 21:33

If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.

Exodus 21:32

However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded.

Exodus 21:30

Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:13

If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.

Deuteronomy 24:12

Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

Deuteronomy 24:11

When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:10

Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person`s livelihood as security.

Deuteronomy 24:6

You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 23:20

Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.

Deuteronomy 23:19

You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.

Deuteronomy 15:3

This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord`s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.

Deuteronomy 15:2

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

Deuteronomy 15:1

having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:14

Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.

2 Kings 23:35

At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:16

So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

2 Kings 18:15

So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:14

And Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 16:8

Menahem exacted this money from Israel. Every wealthy person had to contribute fifty shekels of silver to be given to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and stayed in the land no longer.

2 Kings 15:20

Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave him a thousand talents of silver to gain his support and strengthen his own hold on the kingdom.

2 Kings 15:19

She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

2 Kings 4:7

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

2 Kings 4:1