Debt - The Bible , Quotes and Sayings


Bible Verses about Paying Debt


Romans 13:7-8 

Pay to all what is owed to them:
Taxes to whom taxes are owed,
Revenue to whom revenue is owed,
Respect to whom respect is owed,
Honor to whom honor is owed.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Proverbs 22:7 

The rich rules over the poor and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Psalm 37:21 

The wicked borrows but does not pay back
, but the righteous is generous and gives










QUOTES ON DEBT


Debt is the slavery of the free / Publilius Syrus

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of / Henry Wheeler Shaw

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours /
John Maynard Keynes

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts /Sir Philip Sidney

Debt is the worst poverty / Thomas Fuller


Sayings on debt


Remember that credit is money - Benjamin Franklin

Debt is the worst poverty, with no cure – An Indian soothsayer

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas -
Earl Wilson

Money is a poor man's credit card - Marshal McLuhan

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