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Creditor
[Loan]
In the Bible
6
Verses where Creditor is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
- Deuteronomy 15:2
This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
- Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Isaiah 24:2
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
- Luke 7:41
“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
- Psalms 109:11
May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
Creditor references
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Sources · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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