Bible Verses About Debt: Security For

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.