Proverbs 11:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The one who has put up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands is secure.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:18 : 18 The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.
  • Prov 22:26-27 : 26 Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts. 27 If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
  • Prov 6:1-5 : 1 Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger, 2 if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken, 3 then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor. 4 Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

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