Surety (Guarantee)

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Bible verses about “Surety (Guarantee)”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Genesis 44:32For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
• Exodus 22:26If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
• Exodus 22:27For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
• Deuteronomy 24:10When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
• Deuteronomy 24:11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
• Deuteronomy 24:12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
• Deuteronomy 24:13In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
• Proverbs 6:1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
• Proverbs 6:2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
• Proverbs 6:3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
• Proverbs 6:4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
• Proverbs 6:5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
• Proverbs 11:15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
• Proverbs 17:18A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
• Proverbs 20:16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
• Proverbs 22:26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
• Proverbs 27:13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
• Ezekiel 18:7And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezekiel 18:12Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Ezekiel 33:15If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Amos 2:8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.