Bible verses about Debt
Verses about borrowing, lending and the freedom of owing nothing but love.
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
Exodus 22:25Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
Leviticus 25:35Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
Leviticus 25:36You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
Leviticus 25:37At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
Deuteronomy 15:1This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
Deuteronomy 15:2Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Deuteronomy 23:19You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 23:20The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
Psalms 37:21Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
Proverbs 3:27Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
Proverbs 3:28My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
Proverbs 6:1if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
Proverbs 6:2then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.
Proverbs 6:3Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6:4Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:5The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
Proverbs 22:26If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Proverbs 22:27It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
Psalms 112:5Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account.
Philemon 1:18