Proverbs 6:1 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, If thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ MY SON, if you have become security for your neighbor, if you have given your pledge for a stranger or another,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

Common English Bible

¹ My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ My son, if you have taken a pledge on behalf of your friend, then you have bound your hand to an outsider,

Proverbs 6:1 Cross References

Proverbs 22:26

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Proverbs 17:18

A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

Proverbs 11:15

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

Proverbs 20:16

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Hebrews 7:22

by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Job 17:3

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Genesis 43:9

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Proverbs 6:2

thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Isaiah 2:6

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.