If you promise to pay a stranger's debt, you will regret it. You are better off if you don't get involved.

Only someone with no sense would promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.

Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts ought to have their own property held to guarantee payment.

Don't promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.

Any people stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts deserve to have their own property held to guarantee payment.

I will pledge my own life, and you can hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you safe and sound, I will always bear the blame.

What is more, I pledged my life to my father for the boy. I told him that if I did not bring the boy back to him, I would bear the blame all my life.

And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.

I am being honest, God. Accept my word. There is no one else to support what I say.

If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to my account.

Here, I will write this with my own hand: I, Paul, will pay you back. (I should not have to remind you, of course, that you owe your very self to me.)

This difference, then, also makes Jesus the guarantee of a better covenant.