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Want to know what the Bible says about Pledges? Here are 23 Bible verses about Pledges from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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James 5:12 NIV
Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.
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Luke 6:38 NIV
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
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Proverbs 17:18 NIV
One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge
    and puts up security for a neighbor.
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Exodus 22:26 NIV
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,
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Colossians 2:8 NIV
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
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Matthew 10:33 NIV
But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
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Job 22:6 NIV
You demanded security from your relatives for no reason;
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
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Numbers 30:2 NIV
When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.
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Job 24:3 NIV
They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:10 NIV
When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:17 NIV
Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.
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1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
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Ezekiel 18:16 NIV
He does not oppress anyone
    or require a pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
    but gives his food to the hungry
    and provides clothing for the naked.
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Deuteronomy 24:6 NIV
Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.
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Proverbs 20:16 NIV
Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.
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Ezekiel 18:12 NIV
He oppresses the poor and needy.
He commits robbery.
He does not return what he took in pledge.
He looks to the idols.
He does detestable things.
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Proverbs 22:26 NIV
Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge
    or puts up security for debts;
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Genesis 38:20 NIV
Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.
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John 3:16 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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1 Samuel 17:18 NIV
Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them.
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