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Bible Verses About Debt
Find Bible verses about debt — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about debt?
The Bible addresses debt with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Proverbs 22:7
“The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.”
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Proverbs 22:26
“Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.”
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Galatians 5:3
“Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.”
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2 Kings 4:7
“Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."”
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Matthew 18:32
“Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.”
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1 Samuel 22:2
“Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred m...”
Romans 4:4
“Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.”
Philemon 1:19
“I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).”
Luke 7:41
“"A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.”
Matthew 18:24
“When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.”
Matthew 6:12
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”
Luke 16:5
“Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'”
Romans 15:27
“Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.”
Colossians 2:14
“wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;”
Romans 1:14
“I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.”
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Habakkuk 2:7 — “Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their v...”
Deuteronomy 15:2 — “This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor;...”
2 Kings 4:1 — “Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your se...”
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