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Debt & Borrowing · KJV

Bible Verses About Debt

7 key scriptures

The borrower is servant to the lender. These verses give God's wisdom on debt, lending, and the freedom of owing no man anything but love.

Proverbs 22:7
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Psalm 37:21

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Proverbs 22:26-27
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Deuteronomy 28:12
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Ecclesiastes 5:5
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Proverbs 3:27-28
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.