And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.
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.
So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.
In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.
By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.
A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;
If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,
Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.
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.
For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.
If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,
May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.
And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?
Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty.
And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty.
Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right.
And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.
And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.
But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.
And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.
Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:
And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.
And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us.
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
If he has done you any wrong or is in debt to you for anything, put it to my account.
I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise.
I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,
I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
Yes, it has been their good pleasure; and they are in their debt. For if the Gentiles have had a part in the things of the Spirit which were theirs, it is right for them, in the same way, to give them help in the things of the flesh.
Who for my life put their necks in danger; to whom not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are in debt:
Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.
So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:
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