66 Bible Verses About Debt

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord’s release.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.

And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.

And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.