Proverbs 20:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:13 : 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe: 27 For that is his couering only, and this is his garment for his skin: wherin shal he sleepe? therefore when he crieth vnto mee, I will heare him: for I am mercifull.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
  • Prov 7:10 : 10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
  • Prov 11:15 : 15 Hee shall be sore vexed, that is suretie for a stranger, and he that hateth suretiship, is sure.
  • Prov 22:26-27 : 26 Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts. 27 If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 27:13
    93%

    13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

  • Prov 11:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15Hee shall be sore vexed, that is suretie for a stranger, and he that hateth suretiship, is sure.

    16A gracious woman atteineth honour, and the strong men atteine riches.

  • Job 22:6
    76%

    6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

  • Exod 22:26
    75%

    26If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe:

  • Prov 6:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,

    2Thou art snared with the wordes of thy mouth: thou art euen taken with the woordes of thine owne mouth.

  • Deut 24:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10Whe thou shalt aske again of thy neighbour any thing lent, thou shalt not goe into his house to fet his pledge.

    11But thou shalt stand without, and the man that borowed it of thee, shall bring the pledge out of the doores vnto thee.

    12Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

    13But shalt restore him the pledge when the sunne goeth downe, that he may sleepe in his raiment, and blesse thee: and it shalbe righteousnesse vnto thee before the Lord thy God.

  • Prov 5:20
    75%

    20For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

  • Prov 2:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

    17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

  • Deut 24:17
    74%

    17Thou shalt not peruert the right of the stranger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a widowes rayment to pledge.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.

    27If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?

  • Prov 17:18
    74%

    18A man destitute of vnderstanding, toucheth the hande, and becommeth suretie for his neighbour.

  • Deut 24:6
    74%

    6No man shal take the nether nor the vpper milstone to pledge: for this gage is his liuing.

  • Job 17:3
    74%

    3Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?

  • Prov 20:15
    73%

    15There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewel.

  • Ezek 16:32
    73%

    32But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

  • Prov 7:5
    73%

    5That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

  • Prov 20:17
    72%

    17The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.

  • Prov 6:24-27
    4 verses
    72%

    24To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

    25Desire not her beautie in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.

    26For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

    27Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?

  • Exod 22:14-16
    3 verses
    71%

    14And if a man borow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or els die, the owner thereof not being by, he shal surely make it good.

    15If the owner thereof bee by, hee shall not make it good: for if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

    16And if a man entise a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, hee shall endowe her, and take her to his wife.

  • Prov 20:25
    71%

    25It is a destruction for a man to deuoure that which is sanctified, and after the vowes to inquire.

  • Prov 7:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.

    21Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

  • Prov 22:14
    70%

    14The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

  • Gen 39:16
    70%

    16So she layde vp his garment by her, vntill her lord came home.

  • Prov 23:33
    69%

    33Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.

  • Deut 22:14
    69%

    14And laye slaunderous thinges vnto her charge, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayde,

  • Gen 38:20
    69%

    20Afterwarde Iudah sent a kid of the goates by the hande of his neighbour the Adullamite, for to receiue his pledge from the womans hand: but he found her not.

  • Exod 22:7
    69%

    7If a man deliuer his neighbour money or stuffe to keepe, and it be stollen out of his house, if the thiefe be found, he shall pay the double.

  • Prov 5:3
    69%

    3For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

  • Prov 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

    10Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

  • Deut 25:11
    69%

    11When men striue together, one with another, if the wife of the one come neere, for to ridde her husband out of the handes of him that smiteth him, and put foorth her hand, and take him by his priuities,

  • Exod 22:11
    69%

    11An oth of the Lord shalbe betweene the twaine, that hee hath not put his hande vnto his neighbours good, and the owner of it shall take the othe, and he shall not make it good:

  • Deut 22:20
    68%

    20But if this thing be true, that the mayde be not found a virgine,

  • Ezek 18:7
    68%

    7Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath spoyled none by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,

  • Prov 5:17
    68%

    17But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

  • Job 36:18
    68%

    18For Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee.

  • Prov 23:27
    68%

    27For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.