Proverbs 6:1

King James Version 1611 (Original)

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:15 : 15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
  • Prov 22:26 : 26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  • Job 17:3 : 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
  • Gen 44:32-33 : 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
  • Prov 27:13 : 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  • Phlm 1:18-19 : 18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account; 19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 17:17-18
    2 verses
    84%

    17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

    18A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

  • Prov 6:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

  • Prov 22:24-27
    4 verses
    81%

    24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

    25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

    26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

    27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

  • Prov 11:15
    79%

    15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

  • Job 17:3
    77%

    3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

  • Prov 27:13
    77%

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

  • Prov 20:16
    75%

    16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • Job 6:27
    73%

    27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

  • Prov 1:15
    72%

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Prov 1:10
    71%

    10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

  • Job 22:6
    70%

    6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Prov 18:24
    70%

    24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  • Lev 6:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

    3Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

    4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

  • Exod 22:14
    70%

    14And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

  • Mic 7:5
    70%

    5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

  • Gen 43:9
    70%

    9I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

  • Deut 24:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

    12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

    21Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

  • Prov 27:10
    69%

    10Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

  • Prov 2:1
    69%

    1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

  • Deut 13:6
    69%

    6If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

  • Prov 5:20
    69%

    20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Exod 22:25
    69%

    25If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

  • Job 36:18
    69%

    18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

  • Eccl 5:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

    6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

  • Exod 22:11
    68%

    11Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

  • Job 6:14
    68%

    14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

  • Prov 5:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

    10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

  • Prov 22:6
    68%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Num 30:2
    68%

    2If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

  • Prov 7:1
    68%

    1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

  • Deut 24:6
    68%

    6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

  • 2 Chr 6:22
    68%

    22If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

  • Job 31:21
    68%

    21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

  • Prov 7:5
    68%

    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.