Surety (Guarantee): General Scriptures Concerning

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.’

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

…because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. …

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger, …

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.

Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

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.

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

…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.

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.