My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.
One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?
I will be a pledge of his safety. From 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 forever.
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