Creditors
31 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
20 sections
- Defined
- God's Claim Upon Men
- Might Demand: Bills or Promissory Notes
- Might Demand: Mortgages on Property
- Might Demand: Pledges
- Might Demand: Security of Others
- Might Take Interest from Strangers
- Often Cruel in Exacting Debts
- Often Exacted Debts by Imprisonment
- Often Exacted Debts by Selling the Debtor or Taking Him for a Servant
- Often Exacted Debts by Selling the Debtor's Family
- Often Exacted Debts by Selling the Debtor's Property
- Often Exacted Debts: from the Sureties
- Prohibited From: Exacting Debts from Brethren During Sabbatical Year
- Prohibited From: Exacting Usury from Brethren
- Prohibited From: Taking Millstones in Pledge
- Prohibited From: Violently Selecting Pledges
- Sometimes Entirely Remitted Debts
- The Demands of the Law
- To Return Before Sunset, Garments Taken in Pledge
Defined
- Philemon 18 But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account.
God's Claim Upon Men
- 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 18:23 Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
- Matthew 18:25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
- Luke 7:41 “Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
- Luke 7:47 Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
Might Demand: Bills or Promissory Notes
- Luke 16:6–7 ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take your bill,’ said the manager, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’ …
Might Demand: Mortgages on Property
- Nehemiah 5:3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
Might Demand: Pledges
- Deuteronomy 24:10–11 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. …
- Proverbs 22:27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Might Demand: Security of Others
- Proverbs 6:1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
- Proverbs 22:26 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
Might Take Interest from Strangers
- Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
Often Cruel in Exacting Debts
- Nehemiah 5:7–9 and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them …
- Job 24:3–9 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. …
- Matthew 18:28–30 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!’ …
Often Exacted Debts by Imprisonment
- 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 18:34 In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.
Often Exacted Debts by Selling the Debtor or Taking Him for a Servant
- Matthew 18:25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
- Exodus 21:2 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.
Often Exacted Debts by Selling the Debtor's Family
- 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!”
- Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Matthew 18:25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
Often Exacted Debts by Selling the Debtor's Property
- Matthew 18:25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
Often Exacted Debts: from the Sureties
- Proverbs 11:15 He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
- Proverbs 22:26–27 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. …
Prohibited From: Exacting Debts from Brethren During Sabbatical Year
- 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. …
Prohibited From: Exacting Usury from Brethren
- Exodus 22:25 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 25:36–37 Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. …
Prohibited From: Taking Millstones in Pledge
- 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.
Prohibited From: Violently Selecting Pledges
- Deuteronomy 24:10 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
Sometimes Entirely Remitted Debts
- Nehemiah 5:10–12 I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury. …
- Matthew 18:27 His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.
- Luke 7:42 When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”
The Demands of the Law
- Galatians 5:3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
To Return Before Sunset, Garments Taken in Pledge
- Exodus 22:26–27 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, …
- Deuteronomy 24:12–13 If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession; …
- Ezekiel 18:7 He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- Ezekiel 18:12 He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
Related topics
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.