Debt & Money In The Bible

Today I am combining my participation in the AtoZ blogging challenge with participation in one of my favorite weekly linkups - 7 Quick Takes Friday. I decided pretty easily that letter "D" would be debt.  After all I have been reading Dave Ramsey, and I aspire to be debt free.  Then I realized that right now, I have been far from gazelle intense toward that goal.  I don't have one of those inspiring "getting out of debt" stories that I like to read on other peoples blogs.   But my letter D is still debt....

In one of his talks Dave discusses debt from a Biblical perspective, reminding us that debt is not a salvation issue, it is not something to send us to Hell, but still the Bible has nothing good to say about debt!  So for my inspiration and yours, here we have 7 quick takes on things the Bible does say about debt!

 

(1) Proverbs 22:7

"The borower is slave to the lender."

 

(2) Proverbs 6

"If you have put up security for a neighbor... free yourself like a gazelle from the hands of the hunter."
 

(3) Psalm 37:21
"The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives."

 

(4) Romans 13:8

"Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who has loved his neighbor has fulfilled the law."
 

(5) Deuteronomy 15:6 & 28:12
"You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow."

(6) Ecclesiastes 5:5

"It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay."
 

(7) Proverbs 22:26-27
"Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you."

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