Quotes about Payment
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
— Exodus 22:17
But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
— Leviticus 27:8
and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
— Genesis 23:13
Christ has gained God's favor on your behalf. So your obedience is never a fearful payment, but a hymn of gratitude to a God who met you where you were and did for you what you could not have done for yourself.
— Paul David Tripp
Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.
— Luke 16:7
am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him.
— Samuel Rutherford
And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
— Genesis 30:28
If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
— Leviticus 25:51
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
— Exodus 21:34
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
— John Milton
So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
— 2 Kings 18:14
So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.
— Matthew 20:10