Bible Verses About Contracts

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord’s release.

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be between thee and me for ever.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation.

And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.

And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,