Proverbs 6:1

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.

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

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.

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?

“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

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

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

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

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

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

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.”

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

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

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

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.

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;

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

“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

“ ‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

“ ‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.

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.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”

In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

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

but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

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

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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.

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

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

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

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.

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

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.

Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

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

I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.