Bible Verses About Debt

"Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors."

"At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts."

"You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your brother owes you."

"Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man’s livelihood as security."

"Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Feast of Tabernacles,"

"Will not your debtors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their victim."

"it will be the same for priest as for people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor."

"Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”"

"Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said."

"“So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’"

"Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt."

"The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go."

"“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt."

"“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to."

"Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;"

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law."

"This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his fellow Israelite or brother, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed."

"Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward your needy brother and give him nothing. He may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin."

"The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt."

"All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him."

"She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”"

"“When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts."