Bible Verses about “bankruptcy”

“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.”

“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”

“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”

“The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.”

“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.”

“The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.”

“If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.”

“"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.”

“"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.”

“Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.”

“For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.”

“It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.”

“You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.”

“You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.”

“If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;”

“but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.”

“If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,”

“You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:”

“then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.”

“for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.”

“Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.”

“to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.”

“"'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.”

“At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.”

“It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you;" because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;”

“This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.”

“If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.”

“When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:”

“you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.”

“You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.”

“It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.”

“For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.”

“However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)”

“You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.”

“has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.”

“Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.”

“if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.”

“All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.”

“You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.”

“If it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.”

“Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.”

“Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them."”