Proverbs 22:26

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Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts.

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  • Prov 11:15 : 15 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will suffer harm, but whoever hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.
  • Prov 27:13 : 13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an outsider.
  • Prov 6:1-5 : 1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge with a stranger, 2 you have been trapped by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have come into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your case with your neighbor. 4 Do not allow sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself like a gazelle from the trap, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    27If you lack the means to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

    28Do not remove the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.

  • Prov 6:1-4
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    1My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge with a stranger,

    2you have been trapped by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your mouth.

    3So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have come into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your case with your neighbor.

    4Do not allow sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

  • Prov 22:24-25
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    80%

    24Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, and do not associate with one easily angered.

    25Or you may learn their ways and set a trap for your soul.

  • Prov 11:15
    78%

    15Whoever puts up security for a stranger will suffer harm, but whoever hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

  • Prov 17:18
    77%

    18A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.

  • Job 17:3
    77%

    3Put me in your pledge, O God; who else will strike hands with me in agreement?

  • Exod 22:25
    76%

    25If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it to him before the sun sets.

  • Prov 27:13
    75%

    13Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an outsider.

  • Deut 24:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge.

    11You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

    12If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    16Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.

  • Deut 24:6
    73%

    6Do not take a pair of millstones, not even the upper one, as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person's livelihood as a pledge.

  • Eccl 5:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.

    5Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell God’s messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your words and destroy the work of your hands?

  • Lev 25:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36Do not take interest or profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

    37You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food for profit.

  • Exod 34:12
    71%

    12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare in your midst.

  • Job 36:18
    71%

    18Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing, and let a great ransom not turn you aside.

  • Job 22:6
    71%

    6For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Eph 5:7
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    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

  • Exod 23:1
    70%

    1Do not spread a false report, and do not join hands with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.

  • Prov 24:1
    70%

    1Do not envy wicked people or desire to be with them.

  • Prov 1:15
    70%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths,

  • Ps 15:5
    70%

    5Who does not lend money at interest or accept a bribe against the innocent. The one who does these things will never be shaken.

  • Prov 23:4
    70%

    4Do not wear yourself out trying to become rich; stop relying on your own understanding.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great.

  • Ezek 18:8
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  • Prov 22:7
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    7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Prov 5:9-10
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    28Do not be a false witness against your neighbor or deceive with your lips.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

  • Ps 26:9
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    9Do not sweep away my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty people,

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  • Prov 25:8
    69%

    8Do not go hastily to court, lest you do something in the end that leaves you humiliated when your neighbor puts you to shame.

  • Matt 5:26
    69%

    26Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

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    22Do not be hasty in laying on hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

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    69%

    32Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

  • Deut 23:19
    69%

    19Do not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, for both are detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 23:21
    69%

    21You may charge interest to a foreigner, but not to a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land you are about to enter and possess.

  • Prov 3:26
    69%

    26For the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

  • Exod 23:6
    69%

    6Do not deny justice to your poor among you in their lawsuit.