Bible Verses About Paying Money You Owe
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for paying money you owe, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,620 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 Money You Owe
Psalms 37:21197 votes
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Romans 13:7173 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.
Romans 13:8141 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Proverbs 22:7105 votes
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 3:27-2854 votes
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Matthew 6:1-447 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Malachi 3:1044 votes
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Luke 6:3842 votes
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Romans 13:6-739 votes
For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Psalms 24:138 votes
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 Corinthians 9:737 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
1 Timothy 6:1036 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.
Leviticus 25:35-3829 votes
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Ecclesiastes 5:528 votes
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Haggai 2:826 votes
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
Acts 20:3526 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Proverbs 13:1125 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Matthew 5:4225 votes
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
1 Peter 2:1-2520 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Proverbs 22:26-2719 votes
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Proverbs 28:819 votes
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Romans 13:7-819 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.
1 Timothy 5:819 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.
Leviticus 25:35-3718 votes
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Matthew 25:14-3018 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
What does the Bible say about paying money you owe?
Readers most often cite Psalms 37:21 on the subject of paying money you owe. Across 1,620 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 13:7, Romans 13:8, Proverbs 22:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.