Bible Verses About Surety

Doubtlesse thy seruant became suertie for the childe to my father, and said, If I bring him not vnto thee againe, then I will beare the blame vnto my father for euer.

If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe:

For that is his couering only, and this is his garment for his skin: wherin shall he sleepe? therefore when he crieth vnto mee, I will heare him: for I am mercifull.

Whe thou shalt aske again of thy neighbour any thing lent, thou shalt not goe into his house to fet his pledge.

But thou shalt stand without, and the man that borowed it of thee, shall bring the pledge out of the doores vnto thee.

Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

But shalt restore him the pledge when the sunne goeth downe, that he may sleepe in his raiment, and blesse thee: and it shalbe righteousnesse vnto thee before the Lord thy God.

My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,

Thou art snared with the wordes of thy mouth: thou art euen taken with the woordes of thine owne mouth.

Doe this nowe, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe: seeing thou art come into the hande of thy neighbour, goe, and humble thy selfe, and sollicite thy friends.

Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler.

Hee shall be sore vexed, that is suretie for a stranger, and he that hateth suretiship, is sure.

A man destitute of vnderstanding, toucheth the hande, and becommeth suretie for his neighbour.

Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath spoyled none by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,

Or hath oppressed the poore and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,

To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely liue, and not die.

And they lye downe vpon clothes layde to pledge by euery altar: and they drinke the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.