Creditor: Laws Concerning

Classic topics

Verses

13 references
  1. 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. …
  2. 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. …
  3. If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other. …
  4. Now 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. …
  5. This 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.
  6. You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
  7. Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
  8. You 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.
  9. Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
  10. When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. …
  11. Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
  12. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
  13. 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.