Bible Verses about “paying debt”
The Bible contains 13 verses about paying debt across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.”
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
“For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.”
“Wherefore [ye] must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.”
“¶ The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender.”
“¶ The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.”
“If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.”
“¶ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].”
“Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.”
“Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.”
“¶ 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?”
“¶ Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.”