Proverbs 6:1

Easy To Read Version

My son, don’t make yourself responsible for another person’s debts. Don’t make such deals with friends or with strangers.

Cross References

Genesis 43:9

I will make sure he is safe. I will be responsible for him. If I don’t bring him back to you, then you can blame me forever.

Job 17:3

“God, show me that you really support me.\par No other person will support me.\par

Proverbs 11:15

If you promise to pay another person’s debt, then you will be sorry. You will be safe if you refuse to make those deals.

Proverbs 17:18

Only a fool will promise to be responsible for another person’s debts.

Proverbs 20:16

You will lose your shirt if you make yourself responsible for another man’s debts.

Proverbs 22:26

Don’t promise to be responsible for another person’s debts.

Proverbs 27:13

You will lose your shirt if you make yourself responsible for another man’s debts.

Proverbs 6:2

\{If you do,\} then you will be trapped. And you will have trapped yourself with your own words!

Isaiah 2:6

\{I say this to you\} because you have left your people. Your people have become filled with the wrong ideas of the people in the east. Your people try to tell the future like the Philistines. {\cf2\super [19]} Your people have completely accepted those strange ideas.

Hebrews 7:22

So this means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement {\cf2\super [72]} \{from God to his people\}.