Paying Money you Owe
10 passages
- Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
Read it in context - Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Read it in context - Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Read it in context - Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
Read it in context - Proverbs 3:27–28
27Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act. 28Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
Read it in context - 2 Corinthians 9:7
Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
Read it in context - Romans 13:6–7
6This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work. 7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Read it in context - 1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
Read it in context - Psalm 24:1
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
Read it in context - Haggai 2:8
The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.
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