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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,

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 22:26 : 26 Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.
• 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.
• Job 17:3 : 3 Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me?
• Gen 43:9 : 9 I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
• Gen 44:32-33 : 32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’ 33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.
• 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.
• Phlm 1:18-19 : 18 Now if he has defrauded you of anything or owes you anything, charge what he owes to me. 19 I, Paul, have written this letter with my own hand: I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe me your very self.
• Heb 7:22 : 22 accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.