Proverbs 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Chapter 6 begins teaching us another lesson one about money.
It begins by talking basically about signing on a note with someone else. It is foolishness to do this because it makes you responsible for what some else owes. The word tells us it is better to give or lend without interest than to do sign with someone. Anyone who becomes responsible for another person’s debt is trapped and controlled because he has yielded control of what God has given him. Young people, many times, do not realize that they could have to pay the whole debt for something they did not receive by just signing an innocent looking piece of paper. All to often we buy things today on credit that we really do not need and sometimes do not have the means to pay for it. It is said the number one cause of divorce today is the debt a family has. God’s word give us a plan of how to spend what we have and live a good life if we take take the time to study His word on this subject.