Proverbs 6:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 11:15 : 15 He who is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it, and he who hates suretyship is secure.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 A man lacking understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.
  • Prov 22:26 : 26 Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.
  • Job 17:3 : 3 Put down now, give me a pledge with You; who is he that will strike hands with me?
  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him: if I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever:
  • Gen 44:32-33 : 32 For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. 33 Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant stay instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.
  • Prov 27:13 : 13 Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.
  • Phlm 1:18-19 : 18 If he has wronged you or owes you anything, put that on my account; 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it: although I do not say to you that you owe me even your own self besides.
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much was Jesus made the guarantor of a better covenant.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 17:17-18
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Prov 6:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

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

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Prov 22:24-27
    4 verses
    81%

    24Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man do not go,

    25Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

    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 11:15
    79%

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

  • Job 17:3
    77%

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

  • Prov 27:13
    77%

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

  • Prov 20:16
    75%

    16Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

  • Job 6:27
    73%

    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Prov 1:15
    72%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 1:10
    71%

    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

  • Job 22:6
    70%

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

  • Prov 18:24
    70%

    24A man who has friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

  • Lev 6:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2If a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD, and lies to his neighbor about something delivered to him to keep, or about a pledge, or about something taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbor;

    3Or if he has found what was lost and lies about it, and swears falsely; in any of these things a person may do, sinning therein:

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

  • Exod 22:14
    70%

    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.

  • Mic 7:5
    70%

    5Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

  • Gen 43:9
    70%

    9I will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him: if I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever:

  • Deut 24:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    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:

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

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

    21Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 27:10
    69%

    10Do not forsake your own friend, nor your father's friend, and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

  • Prov 2:1
    69%

    1My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

  • Deut 13:6
    69%

    6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

  • Prov 5:20
    69%

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

  • Exod 22:25
    69%

    25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

  • Job 36:18
    69%

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

  • Eccl 5:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5It is better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

    6Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

  • Exod 22:11
    68%

    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.

  • Job 6:14
    68%

    14To him who is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; yet he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • Prov 5:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    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;

  • 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 makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

  • Prov 7:1
    68%

    1My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

  • Deut 24:6
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 6:22
    68%

    22If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath comes before your altar in this house;

  • Job 31:21
    68%

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

  • Prov 7:5
    68%

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