Cosigning

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

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. — read the full passage →

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.” — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. — read the full passage →

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? — read the full passage →

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? — read the full passage →

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion. — read the full passage →

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

“The leach has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

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

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

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

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

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

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.