Proverbs 20:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

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  • Prov 27:13 : 13 Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
  • Prov 7:10 : 10 And it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
  • Prov 11:15 : 15 He who is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it, and he who hates suretyship is secure.
  • Prov 22:26-27 : 26 Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts. 27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 27:13
    93%

    13Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.

  • Prov 11:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15He who is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it, and he who hates suretyship is secure.

    16A gracious woman retains honor, and strong men retain riches.

  • Job 22:6
    76%

    6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Exod 22:26
    75%

    26If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

  • Prov 6:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have shaken hands with a stranger,

    2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

  • Deut 24:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

    13In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

  • Prov 5:20
    75%

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

  • Prov 2:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

    17Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

  • Deut 24:17
    74%

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Prov 17:18
    74%

    18A man lacking understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.

  • Deut 24:6
    74%

    6No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.

  • Job 17:3
    74%

    3Put down now, give me a pledge with You; who is he that will strike hands with me?

  • Prov 20:15
    73%

    15There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

  • Ezek 16:32
    73%

    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 7:5
    73%

    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 20:17
    72%

    17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Prov 6:24-27
    4 verses
    72%

    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

    26For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

    27Can a man take fire into his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

  • Exod 22:14-16
    3 verses
    71%

    14If a man borrows anything from his neighbor and it is broken or dies, with its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

    15But if its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

    16If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

  • Prov 20:25
    71%

    25It is a snare for a man to devour what is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.

  • Prov 7:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the appointed day.

    21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she prevailed over him.

  • Prov 22:14
    70%

    14The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • Gen 39:16
    70%

    16And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

  • Prov 23:33
    69%

    33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Deut 22:14
    69%

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

  • Gen 38:20
    69%

    20Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he could not find her.

  • Exod 22:7
    69%

    7If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen out of the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

  • Prov 5:3
    69%

    3For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

  • Prov 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

    10Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

  • Deut 25:11
    69%

    11When men fight with each other, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and seizes him by his private parts,

  • Exod 22:11
    69%

    11then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both that he has not put his hand upon his neighbor's goods; and the owner shall accept this, and he shall not make restitution.

  • Deut 22:20
    68%

    20But if this thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman,

  • Ezek 18:7
    68%

    7And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

  • Prov 5:17
    68%

    17Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

  • Job 36:18
    68%

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

  • Prov 23:27
    68%

    27For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.