Surety (Guarantee)

General Scriptures Concerning

• Genesis 44:32 Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
• Exodus 22:26–27 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, …
• Deuteronomy 24:10–13 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. …
• Proverbs 6:1–5 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger, …
• Proverbs 11:15 He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
• Proverbs 17:18 A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
• Proverbs 20:16 Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
• Proverbs 22:26 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
• Proverbs 27:13 Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
• Ezekiel 18:7 He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
• Ezekiel 18:12 He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
• Ezekiel 33:15 if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity— then he will surely live; he will not die.
• Amos 2:8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.