Bible Verses About Paying Your Debts
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for paying your debts, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 822 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 Your Debts
Psalms 37:21116 votes
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Romans 13:7107 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 13:884 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Proverbs 22:748 votes
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Ecclesiastes 5:542 votes
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Romans 13:7-835 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 6:934 votes
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Acts 20:3533 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.
Titus 3:523 votes
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Proverbs 22:26-2721 votes
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Matthew 6:3320 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Colossians 3:2317 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
1 Timothy 6:1017 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.
Matthew 6:2416 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 22:17-2116 votes
Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cesar, or not?
Proverbs 3:27-2815 votes
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Luke 6:3815 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.
Matthew 5:4214 votes
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Romans 6:2314 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 13:1-714 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Proverbs 17:1813 votes
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
1 Timothy 5:813 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 11:1512 votes
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Deuteronomy 28:1211 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.
Malachi 3:1011 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.
What does the Bible say about paying your debts?
Readers most often cite Psalms 37:21 on the subject of paying your debts. Across 822 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.