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Proverbs 6

¹ My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, ² if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, ³ then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. ⁴ Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; ⁵ save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 11:15

Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

Proverbs 17:18

One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 22

⁷ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

²⁶ Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.

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Talk Sheet Questions

1. How would you describe the financial environment today? Can you save enough money to get ahead? Is debt a necessary part of life? Explain.

2. How does putting up security for someone put you in debt? (6:1-3) Why is it so important to get out of it?

3. Is there such a thing as good debt? Explain. If so, what is the difference between good debt and bad debt?

4. Should a Christian be attracted to the idea of leverage that debt provides or should Christian be afraid of debt?

5. In what ways is a borrower a slave to a lender? (22:7)

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Prayer

Pray for financial and spiritual freedom.

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