Paying Money you Owe

The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.

Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.

Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.

Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.