17 Verses About Debt from 11 Books

1_Samuel 22:2

Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

2_Kings 4:7

Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."

Ezekiel 18:7

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Galatians 5:3

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Habakkuk 2:7

Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Isaiah 24:2

It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

Luke 7:41

"A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.



Luke 11:4

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'"

Luke 16:5

Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

Matthew 6:12

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

Matthew 18:27

The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

Matthew 18:32

Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

Nehemiah 10:31

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Proverbs 22:26

Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.



Romans 1:14

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Romans 8:12

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 15:27

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.





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