Bible Verses About Surety

Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:

But thou shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee what he hath.

But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger,

Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.

Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

A foolish man will clap hands, when he is surety for his friend.

Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment:

That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes to idols, that comitteth abomination:

And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.

And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.