Proverbs 20:16

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

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

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

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

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

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

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

Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

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

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

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

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

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.”

People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

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

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

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.’

Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

“ ‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

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

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.

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

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

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

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.

“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.