Proverbs 6:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;

Cross References

Genesis 43:9

I will be surety for him; of my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame for ever;

Job 17:3

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

Proverbs 11:15

He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

Proverbs 17:18

A man without sense gives a pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 20:16

Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 22:26

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

Proverbs 27:13

Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 6:2

if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;

Isaiah 2:6

For thou hast rejected thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with foreigners.

Hebrews 7:22

This makes Jesus the surety of a better covenant.