Quotes About Debt

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking oneís livelihood as security.

Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”

She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the kingís tax on our fields and vineyards.

When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

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

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.

Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

Then the servant fell on his knees before him. ëHave patience with me,í he begged, ëand I will pay back everything.í

His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.

But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ëPay back what you owe me!í

So his fellow servant fell down and begged him, ëHave patience with me, and I will pay you back.í

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

Then the master summoned him and declared, ëYou wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.

In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.