Proverbs 6:1
¶ 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.
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- Prov 17:17-182 verses84%
17 ¶ A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
18 ¶ A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
- Prov 6:2-43 verses82%
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3 Do 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.
4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- Prov 22:24-274 verses81%
24 ¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26 ¶ Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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15 ¶ He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it]: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
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3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
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13 ¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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16 ¶ Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
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15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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24 ¶ A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.
- Lev 6:2-43 verses70%
2 If 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;
3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
4 Then 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,
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14 And 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.
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5 Trust 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.
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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:
- Deut 24:10-123 verses70%
10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
- Prov 6:20-212 verses70%
20 ¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
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10 Thine 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.
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1 ¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
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6 ¶ If 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;
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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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25 ¶ If 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.
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18 Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
- Eccl 5:5-62 verses68%
5 Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6 Suffer 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?
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11 [Then] 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.
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14 ¶ To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- Prov 5:9-102 verses68%
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
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6 ¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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2 If 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.
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1 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
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22 If 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;
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21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.