Day 8 - Debt and Slavery

• Romans 13:8
  • Let no debt remain…except the continuing debt to love one another…
• Thoughts
  • + - The Bible discourages debt
    • + - ~ Proverbs 22:7
      • The rich rules over the poor,and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
  • + - Paul frequently identified himself as being
    a slave of those to whom he ministered
    • + - ~ Romans 1:1
      • Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
    • + - ~ 1 Corinthians 9:19
      • For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
    • + - ~ 2 Corinthians 4:5

      • For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

  • + - Paul urged us to resist becoming slaves of men
    • + - ~ 1 Corinthians 7:21-23

      • Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) 22 For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ. 23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

• Other references
  • Search ideas:
    • debt, debtor, creditor, borrow, borrower, lend, lender
  • Search on debt
    • + - 1 Samuel 22:2

      • And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.

        + - Strong's 05377, naw-shaw': debt or debtor or exacting [usury]

        • 1Sa 22:2; Ne 5:7; Isa 24:2
    • + - 2 Kings 4:7

      • She came and told the man of God, and he said, Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.

        Strong's 05386, nesh-ee': debt

    • + - Nehemiah 10:31

      • And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

        + - Strong's 03027, Yad: debt

        • Ne 10:31; 1,551 other uses
    • + - Proverbs 13:13

      • Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself,but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.

        No Strong's number?: debt

    • + - Matthew 18:27
      • And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.
      • Strong's 1156, Daneion: debt (a loan)
    • + - Matthew 18:32

      • Then his master summoned him and said to him, You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.

        + - Strong's 3782, Opheile: debt, duty, what is due

        • That which is owed, a debt, metaph. dues: specifically of conjugal duty
        • Mt 18:32; Ro 13:7; 1Co 7:3
    • + - Colossians 2:14

      • by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

        + - Strong's 5498, Cheirographon (khi-rog'-raf-on): certificate of debt

        • A handwriting, what one has written by his own hand a note of hand or writing in which one acknowledges that money has either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to be returned at the appointed time