Bible Verses About Debt (37+ Verses)

"The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender."

"Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law."

"The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously."

"Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?"

"Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors."

"The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt."

"Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow."

"For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you."

"My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth. Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor."

"He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure."

"A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor."

"Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”"

"For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?"

"Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor."

"Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you."

"My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

"The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously."

"“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon."

"But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever."

"Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts."

"If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?"

"But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well."

"“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest. If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious."

"Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow."

"Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you."

"There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up."

"He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much."

"At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed."

"No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."

"It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay."

"Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it."

"“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest."

"The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty."

"wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;"

"Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”"

"You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest."

"He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor."