paying your debts
What does the Bible say about paying your debts? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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21The sinner will lend and not release, but the just one shows compassion and donates.
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.
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.
5You should not use your mouth so as to cause your flesh to sin. And you should not say, in the sight of an Angel, “There is no Providence.” For God, being angry at your words, may scatter all the works of your hands.
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. 8You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
35I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
5And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
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?