Creditor
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Laws Concerning
- Exodus 21:2–6 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything. …
- Exodus 22:25–27 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. …
- Leviticus 25:14–17 If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other. …
- Leviticus 25:35–37 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. …
- Deuteronomy 15:2–3 This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed. …
- Deuteronomy 23:19–20 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. …
- Deuteronomy 24:6 Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:10–13 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. …
- Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Matthew 5:42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
- Luke 6:34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.
Merciful
- Psalm 112:5 It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
- Matthew 18:23–27 Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. …
- Luke 7:41–43 “Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. …
Oppressions of
- 2 Kings 4:1 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
- Nehemiah 5:1–13 About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. …
- Job 20:18–20 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading. …
- Job 22:6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
- Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Proverbs 22:26–27 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. …
- Matthew 5:25–26 Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. …
- Matthew 18:28–35 But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ …
- Luke 12:58–59 Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison. …
Related topics
CreditorsLendingUsuryDebtorInterestCovetousness in Exacting Usury from Their Brethren
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.