Bible Verses About Surety

For your servant himself guaranteed his safety; I said, 'If I fail to bring him to you, then I will bear the blame before my father forever.'

If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to restore it to him by sundown,

because it is his only garment - he needs it to wrap his body; what else does he have in which to sleep? Moreover, if he cries out to me, I will listen; because I am compassionate.

"When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you are not to enter his house to take his collateral.

You must stand outside, and the borrower will bring the collateral outside to you.

If he is poor, you are not to go to bed with what he gave as collateral in your possession;

rather, you must restore the pledged item at sunset; then he will go to sleep wearing his garment and bless you. This will be an upright deed of yours before ADONAI your God.

My son, if you have put up security for your friend, if you committed yourself on behalf of another;

you have been snared by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your own mouth.

Do this now, my son, and extricate yourself, since you put yourself in your friend's power: go, humble yourself, and pester your friend;

give your eyes no sleep, give your eyelids no rest;

break free, like a gazelle from the [hunter's] trap, like a bird from the grip of the fowler.

He who guarantees a loan for a stranger will suffer, but refusing to underwrite is safe.

He who gives his hand to guarantee a loan for his neighbor lacks good sense.

Seize his clothes, because he guaranteed a stranger's loan; take them as security for that unknown woman.

Don't be one of those who give pledges, guaranteeing loans made to others;

Seize his clothes because he guaranteed a stranger's loan; take them as security for that unknown woman.

he doesn't wrong anyone; he returns any pledged property a debtor has given as collateral for a loan; he takes nothing by robbery, but gives his food to the hungry and clothing to those who need it;

wrongs the poor and needy, takes by robbery, doesn't restore pledged property, raises his eyes toward the idols, engages in disgusting practices,

if the wicked person restores pledged property and returns what he stole, so that he lives by the laws that give life and does not commit evil deeds; then he will live, he will not die.

lying down beside any altar on clothes taken in pledge; drinking wine in the house of their God bought with fines they imposed.