Exodus 22:26

The Message

“If you take your neighbor’s coat as security, give it back before nightfall; it may be your neighbor’s only covering—what else does the person have to sleep in? And if I hear the neighbor crying out from the cold, I’ll step in—I’m compassionate.

Cross References

Psalm 10:14

But you know all about it— the contempt, the abuse. I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday in you. You won’t let them down: orphans won’t be orphans forever.

Psalm 34:7

God’s angel sets up a circle of protection around us while we pray.

Proverbs 20:16

Hold tight to collateral on any loan to a stranger; beware of accepting what a transient has pawned.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Make sure foreigners and orphans get their just rights. Don’t take the cloak of a widow as security for a loan. Don’t ever forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and God, your God, got you out of there. I command you: Do what I’m telling you.

Deuteronomy 24:6

Don’t seize a handmill or an upper millstone as collateral for a loan. You’d be seizing someone’s very life.