Proverbs 3:29
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Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
Who lives securely beside you.
Proverbs 6:1
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Parental Counsel
6 My son, if you have become surety (guaranteed a debt or obligation) for your neighbor,
If you have given your pledge for [the debt of] a stranger or another [outside your family],
Proverbs 6:3
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Do this now, my son, and release yourself [from the obligation];
[a]Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor,
Go humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor [to pay his debt and release you].
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Under the ancient laws governing debt, a man obligated for another’s debt could lose his money, land, bed, and clothing; and if these were not sufficient, he and his wife and children could be sold as slaves, not to be released until the next Year of Jubilee—fifty years after the previous one.
Proverbs 16:29
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A violent and exceedingly covetous man entices his neighbor [to sin],
And leads him in a way that is not good.
Proverbs 21:10
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The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];
His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.(A)
Proverbs 25:17
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Let your foot seldom be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become tired of you and hate you.
Proverbs 27:10
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Do not abandon your own friend and your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27:14
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He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be counted as a curse to him [for it will either be annoying or his purpose will be suspect].
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