being in debt

⁸You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

⁷The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁷Therefore, render to all whatever is owed. Taxes, to whom taxes is due; revenue, to whom revenue is due; fear, to whom fear is due; honor, to whom honor is due.

²¹The sinner will lend and not release, but the just one shows compassion and donates.

²⁸For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?

²³Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as for the Lord, and not for men.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

²⁴No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

¹Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not apparent.

¹¹Substance obtained in haste will be diminished. But what is collected by hand, little by little, shall be multiplied.

⁶You shall lend money to many nations, and you yourselves shall borrow in return from no one. You shall rule over very many nations, and no one shall rule over you.

²⁶Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts. ²⁷For if you do not have the means to restore, what reason should there be for him to take the covering from your bed?

¹⁰For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.