If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.
And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.
And Saul was very angry and this saying was unpleasing to him; and he said, They have given David credit for tens of thousands, and to me for only thousands: what more is there for him but the kingdom?
Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.
Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.
Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.
The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.
Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.
This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?
For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?
If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners do the same.
And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.
And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.
If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.
More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;
Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,
So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.
What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.
Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.
If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.
For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.
Now our prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that it may be put to our credit, but so that you may do what is right, whatever we may seem.
I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,
Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;
Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.
Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.
But at least you have the credit of hating the works of the Nicolaitans, as I do.
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