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Proverbs 22:26
Proverbs 22:26 is verse 26 of Proverbs chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
King James Version
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
World English Bible
Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
Read in context
Proverbs 22:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible
24 Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
25 or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
26 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 6:1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
Proverbs 6:2if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
Proverbs 6:3then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.
Proverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Proverbs 11:15He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
Proverbs 17:18A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
Proverbs 27:13Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.