Bible Verses about “debt to family”
The Bible contains 18 verses about debt to family across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.”
“"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.”
“Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."”
“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”
“Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.”
“Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.”
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”
“The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.”
“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?”
“Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.”
“The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.”
“Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.”
“Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.”
“Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.”
“If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?”
“The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.”
“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.”