Topic
SURETY (GUARANTEE)
General scriptures concerning GEN 44:32; EXO 22:26,27; DEU 24:10-13; PRO 6:1-5; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 22:26; 27:13; EZK 18:7,12; 33:15; AMO 2:8
Passages on this topic · 21
- Genesis 44:32
For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
- Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
- Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
- Deuteronomy 24:10
When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:11
You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
- Deuteronomy 24:12
If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
- Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
- Proverbs 6:2
You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
- Proverbs 6:3
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.
- Proverbs 6:4
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:5
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Proverbs 11:15
He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
- Proverbs 17:18
A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
- Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
- Proverbs 22:26
Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
- Proverbs 27:13
Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!
- Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
- Ezekiel 18:12
has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
- Ezekiel 33:15
if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Amos 2:8
and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).