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.
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
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.
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.
This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
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?
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.
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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