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The Debt Test

Twelve multiple-choice questions on what Scripture states concerning the borrower and the lender, each answer keyed to its KJV verse (Proverbs 22:7 KJV).

What does the Bible say about debt? Test your knowledge

The Bible states that the borrower is servant to the lender (Proverbs 22:7 KJV), and that the wicked borroweth, and payeth not again (Psalm 37:21 KJV). It records the command to owe no man any thing, but to love one another (Romans 13:8 KJV).

The twelve questions below quote the borrowing, suretyship, usury, and pledge passages word for word from the King James Version (Deuteronomy 23:19 KJV).

Question 1 of 12 According to Proverbs 22:7, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is ___ to the lender.”
Question 2 of 12 According to Romans 13:8, “Owe no man any thing, but to ___ one another.”
Question 3 of 12 According to Psalms 37:21, “The wicked borroweth, and ___ not again.”
Question 4 of 12 According to Deuteronomy 28:44, “he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the ___.”
Question 5 of 12 According to Deuteronomy 28:12, “thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not ___.”
Question 6 of 12 According to Proverbs 22:26, “Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are ___ for debts.”
Question 7 of 12 According to Exodus 22:25, “thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him ___.”
Question 8 of 12 According to Proverbs 11:15, “He that is surety for a stranger shall ___ for it.”
Question 9 of 12 Which passage commands, “Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother”?
Question 10 of 12 Which passage states, “At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release”?
Question 11 of 12 Which passage states, “from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away”?
Question 12 of 12 According to Exodus 22:26, by what time must a neighbour's raiment taken to pledge be delivered back to him?