Bible Verses About Paying Debts
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for paying debts, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,086 votes, led by Psalms 37:21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Paying Debts
Psalms 37:21166 votes
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Romans 13:8159 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:7133 votes
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Proverbs 22:7109 votes
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Romans 13:7-851 votes
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Proverbs 22:26-2750 votes
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Ecclesiastes 5:546 votes
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
James 5:444 votes
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Matthew 6:2442 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 5:4241 votes
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Deuteronomy 28:1238 votes
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Proverbs 17:1836 votes
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Romans 13:5-736 votes
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
1 Timothy 5:834 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Proverbs 11:1532 votes
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Deuteronomy 15:630 votes
For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
Proverbs 3:27-2827 votes
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Romans 6:2326 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Colossians 3:2326 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Romans 5:825 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Proverbs 13:2223 votes
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Luke 14:2823 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
1 Timothy 6:1023 votes
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Numbers 30:221 votes
If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Proverbs 22:2621 votes
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
What does the Bible say about paying debts?
Readers most often cite Psalms 37:21 on the subject of paying debts. Across 2,086 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 13:8, Romans 13:7, Proverbs 22:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.