Proverbs 6:1
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Practical Admonitions
6 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself to another,[a](A)
Footnotes
- 6.1 Or a stranger
Proverbs 22:26
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26 Do not be one of those who give pledges,
who become surety for debts.(A)
Proverbs 17:18
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18 It is senseless to give a pledge,
to become surety for a neighbor.(A)
Proverbs 11:15
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15 To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble,
but there is safety in refusing to do so.
Proverbs 20:16
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16 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
Philemon 18-19
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18 If he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to me. 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. I say nothing about your owing me even your own self.
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Proverbs 27:13
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13 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.[a](A)
Job 17:3
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3 “Lay down a pledge for me with yourself;
who is there who will give surety for me?(A)
Genesis 44:32-33
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32 For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.’(A) 33 Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
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Genesis 43:9
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9 I myself will be surety for him; you can hold me accountable for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.(A)
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Hebrews 7:22
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22 accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.(A)
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