CREDITOR


Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

EXO 21:2  "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. 
But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

3  If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he 
comes, she is to go with him.

4  If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the 
woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall 
go free.

5  "But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children 
and do not want to go free,'

6  then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to 
the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be 
his servant for life.

22:25  "If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do 
not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest.

26  If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it to him by 
sunset,

27  because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else 
will he sleep in? When he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am 
compassionate.

LEV 25:14  "'If you sell land to one of your countrymen or buy any from 
him, do not take advantage of each other.

15  You are to buy from your countryman on the basis of the number of years 
since the Jubilee. And he is to sell to you on the basis of the number of 
years left for harvesting crops.

16  When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the 
years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what he is really 
selling you is the number of crops.

17  Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD 
your God.

35  "'If one of your countrymen becomes poor and is unable to support 
himself among you, help him as you would an alien or a temporary resident, 
so he can continue to live among you.

36  Do not take interest of any kind from him, but fear your God, so that 
your countryman may continue to live among you.

37  You must not lend him money at interest or sell him food at a profit.

DEU 15:2  This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the 
loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from 
his fellow Israelite or brother, because the LORD'S time for canceling 
debts has been proclaimed.

3  You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt 
your brother owes you.

23:19  Do not charge your brother interest, whether on money or food or 
anything else that may earn interest.

20  You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a brother Israelite, so 
that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in 
the land you are entering to possess.

24:6  Do not take a pair of millstones--not even the upper one--as security 
for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security.

10  When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into his 
house to get what he is offering as a pledge.

11  Stay outside and let the man to whom you are making the loan bring the 
pledge out to you.

12  If the man is poor, do not go to sleep with his pledge in your 
possession.

13  Return his cloak to him by sunset so that he may sleep in it. Then he 
will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of 
the LORD your God.

17  Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the 
cloak of the widow as a pledge.

2KI 4:1  The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to 
Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the 
LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves."

NEH 5:1  Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their 
Jewish brothers.

2  Some were saying, "We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order 
for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain."

3  Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our 
homes to get grain during the famine."

4  Still others were saying, "We have had to borrow money to pay the king's 
tax on our fields and vineyards.

5  Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our countrymen and though 
our sons are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and 
daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but 
we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others."

6  When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry.

7  I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I 
told them, "You are exacting usury from your own countrymen!" So I called 
together a large meeting to deal with them

8  and said: "As far as possible, we have bought back our Jewish brothers 
who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your brothers, only for 
them to be sold back to us!" They kept quiet, because they could find 
nothing to say.

9  So I continued, "What you are doing is not right. Shouldn't you walk in 
the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies?

10  I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and 
grain. But let the exacting of usury stop!

11  Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and 
houses, and also the usury you are charging them--the hundredth part of the 
money, grain, new wine and oil."

12  "We will give it back," they said. "And we will not demand anything 
more from them. We will do as you say." Then I summoned the priests and 
made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised.

13  I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, "In this way may God 
shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this 
promise. So may such a man be shaken out and emptied!" At this the whole 
assembly said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had 
promised.

JOB 22:6  You demanded security from your brothers for no reason; you 
stripped men of their clothing, leaving them naked.

24:3  They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in 
pledge.

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

10  Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still 
go hungry.

PSA 112:5  Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who 
conducts his affairs with justice.

PRO 22:26  Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security 
for debts;

27  if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under 
you.

MAT 5:25  "Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to 
court. Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you 
over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you 
may be thrown into prison.

26  I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last 
penny.

42  Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who 
wants to borrow from you.

18:23  "Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to 
settle accounts with his servants.

24  As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was 
brought to him.

25  Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife 
and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

26  "The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he 
begged, 'and I will pay back everything.'

27  The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him 
go.

28  "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. 'Pay 
back what you owe me!' he demanded.

29  "His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with 
me, and I will pay you back.'

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

31  When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly 
distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.

32  "Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 
'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

33  Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on 
you?'

34  In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, 
until he should pay back all he owed.

35  "This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you 
forgive your brother from your heart."

LUK 6:34  And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what 
credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be 
repaid in full.

7:41  "Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five 
hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

42  Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts 
of both. Now which of them will love him more?"

43  Simon replied, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled." 
"You have judged correctly," Jesus said.

12:58  As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to 
be reconciled to him on the way, or he may drag you off to the judge, and 
the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into 
prison.

59  I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."

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