Bible Verses About Surety

For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.

If thou at all take thy neighbor’s garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.

And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor: Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;

Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; But he that hateth suretyship is secure.

A man void of understanding striketh hands, And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.

Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Orof them that are sureties for debts.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.

and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.