Proverbs 6:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,

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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,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger.

Proverbs 6:1 Cross References

Genesis 43:9

I myself will be surety for him; you can hold me accountable for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

Job 17:3

“Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will give surety for me?

Proverbs 11:15

To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble, but there is safety in refusing to do so.

Proverbs 17:18

It is senseless to give a pledge, to become surety for a neighbor.

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 22:26

Do not be one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

Proverbs 27:13

Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 6:2

you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.

Isaiah 2:6

You have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, for they are full of diviners from the East and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with foreigners.

Hebrews 7:22

accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.