Proverbs 22:26

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Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:15 : 15 The one who has put up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands is secure.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.
  • Prov 27:13 : 13 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.
  • 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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