Pawn: General Scriptures Concerning
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Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
Deuteronomy 24:10–13, 17
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. / You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you. / If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Ezekiel 18:5, 7, 12
Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right: / He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing. / He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
Ezekiel 33:15
if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
Amos 2:8
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.