Proverbs 19:1
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19 Better the poor walking in integrity
than one perverse of speech who is a fool.(A)
Proverbs 28:6
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6 Better to be poor and walk in integrity
than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.(A)
Proverbs 16:8
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8 Better is a little with righteousness
than large income with injustice.
James 2:5-6
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5 Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?(A) 6 But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?(B)
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Matthew 16:26
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26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
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Proverbs 20:7
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7 The righteous walk in integrity—
happy are the children who follow them!(A)
Proverbs 19:22
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22 What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
and it is better to be poor than a liar.
Proverbs 15:16
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16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
than great treasure and trouble with it.(A)
Proverbs 14:2
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2 Those who walk uprightly fear the Lord,
but one who is devious in conduct despises him.(A)
Isaiah 59:3
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3 For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.(A)
Proverbs 12:26
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26 The righteous are released from misfortune,[a]
but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Footnotes
- 12.26 Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 37:26
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26 They are ever giving liberally and lending,
and their children become a blessing.(A)
Psalm 26:11
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11 But as for me, I walk in my integrity;
redeem me and be gracious to me.(A)
Matthew 12:31-34
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31 Therefore I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.(A) 32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.(B)
A Tree and Its Fruit
33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.(C) 34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.(D)
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1 Samuel 25:25
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25 My lord, do not take seriously this ill-natured fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal[a] is his name, and folly is with him, but I, your servant, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.(A)
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- 25.25 That is, fool
1 Samuel 25:17
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17 Now, therefore, know this and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”
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