Proverbs 11:15

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,