9 Bible Verses about Borrowing, Surety

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Proverbs 6:1-5

My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger, thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth. Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou have come into the hand of thy neighbor. Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor.read more.
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 17:18

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 22:26-27

Be thou not one of those who strike hands, [or] of those who are sureties for debts. If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Proverbs 20:16

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.

Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge [who is surety] for a strange woman.

Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.

Job 22:6

For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Nehemiah 5:3-13

There were some also who said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain because of the dearth. There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]. Neither is it in ourread more.
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the ranking men and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word. Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them, so will we do, even as thou say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise. Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised LORD. And th

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