Bible Scriptures Related to Debt

Luke 14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Romans 13:7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

Psalm 37:21 The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Proverbs 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Job 24:9 There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.

Proverbs 11:15 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 John 2:2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Amos 2:8 They lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Hebrews 10:26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Proverbs 31:6-7 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

Proverbs 22:26 Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.

Exodus 22:25-27 If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Proverbs 21:20 Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Luke 16:11 If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?