Bible verses about Creditors
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)

Defined Philemon 1:18 MIGHT DEMAND Pledges Deuteronomy 24:10,11; Proverbs 22:27 Security of others Proverbs 6:1; 22:26 Mortgages on property Nehemiah 5:3 Bills or promissory notes Luke 16:6,7 To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge Exodus 22:26,27; Deuteronomy 24:12,13; Ezekiel 18:7,12 PROHIBITED FROM Taking millstones in pledge Deuteronomy 24:6 Violently selecting pledges Deuteronomy 24:10 Exacting usury from brethren Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:36,37 Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year Deuteronomy 15:2,3 Might take interest from strangers Deuteronomy 23:20 Sometimes entirely remitted debts Nehemiah 5:10-12; Matthew 18:27; Luke 7:42 Often cruel in exacting debts Nehemiah 5:7-9; Job 24:3-9; Matthew 18:28-30 OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant Matthew 18:25; Exodus 21:2 By selling the debtor's property Matthew 18:25 By selling the debtor's family II Kings 4:1; Job 24:9; Matthew 18:25 By imprisonment Matthew 5:25,26; 18:34 From the sureties Proverbs 11:15; 22:26,27 Were often defrauded I Samuel 22:2; Luke 16:5-7 ILLUSTRATIVE OF God's claim upon men Matthew 5:25,26; 18:23,25; Luke 7:41,47 The demands of the law Galatians 5:3