Debt
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Romans 13:8 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Security For
- 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. …
- 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.
- Nehemiah 5:3–4 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.” …
- Job 22:6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- 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 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
- Amos 2:8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
Related topics
Vineyards were often MortgagedHyke or Upper Garment used by the Poor As a Covering by NightCreditorsSurety (Guarantee)CreditorBeds of the Poor Covered with Upper Garment
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.