Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
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Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
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Proverbs 6:2
You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
Proverbs 6:3
Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
Proverbs 6:4
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
Proverbs 6:5
Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
Proverbs 17:18
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
Proverbs 11:15
He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.
Proverbs 20:16
Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Proverbs 22:26
Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:
Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
Proverbs 27:13
Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
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Job 17:3
Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
Genesis 43:9
Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
Hebrews 7:22
By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.
Genesis 44:32
For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
Philemon 1:19
I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.
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Ezra 10:19
And they gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.
Ezekiel 17:18
For he put his oath on one side in letting the agreement be broken; and though he had given his hand to it, he did all these things; he will not get away safe.
2 Kings 10:15
And when he had gone away from there, he came across Jehonadab, the son of Rechab: and he said good-day to him, and said to him, Is your heart true to mine, as mine is to yours? And Jehonadab in answer said, It is; and Jehu said, If it is, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he made him come up into his carriage.
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Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 6:21
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Proverbs 6:22
In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
Proverbs 6:23
For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Proverbs 6:24
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
Proverbs 6:25
Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
Proverbs 5:3
For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
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Proverbs 6:12
A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
Proverbs 6:13
Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
Proverbs 6:14
His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
Proverbs 6:15
For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
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Exodus 22:25
If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.
Exodus 22:26
If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:
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Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
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Proverbs 6:16
Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
Proverbs 6:17
Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
Proverbs 6:18
A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
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