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Proverbs 3:9-10

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Proverbs 3:9-10 New International Version (NIV)

9 Honor the Lord with your wealth,
    with the firstfruits of all your crops;
10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing,
    and your vats will brim over with new wine.

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Proverbs 10:15

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Proverbs 10:15 New International Version (NIV)

15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,
    but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

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Proverbs 11:4

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Proverbs 11:4 New International Version (NIV)

4 Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

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Proverbs 11:28

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Proverbs 11:28 New International Version (NIV)

28 Those who trust in their riches will fall,
    but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.

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Proverbs 13:8

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Proverbs 13:8 New International Version (NIV)

8 A person’s riches may ransom their life,
    but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.

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Proverbs 14:20

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Proverbs 14:20 New International Version (NIV)

20 The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
    but the rich have many friends.

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Proverbs 15:16

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Proverbs 15:16 New International Version (NIV)

16 Better a little with the fear of the Lord
    than great wealth with turmoil.

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Proverbs 17:16

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Proverbs 17:16 New International Version (NIV)

16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
    when they are not able to understand it?

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Proverbs 18:11

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Proverbs 18:11 New International Version (NIV)

11 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;
    they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

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Proverbs 18:23

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Proverbs 18:23 New International Version (NIV)

23 The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly.

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Proverbs 19:4

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Proverbs 19:4 New International Version (NIV)

4 Wealth attracts many friends,
    but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.

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Proverbs 19:6-7

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Proverbs 19:6-7 New International Version (NIV)

6 Many curry favor with a ruler,
    and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.

7 The poor are shunned by all their relatives—
    how much more do their friends avoid them!
Though the poor pursue them with pleading,
    they are nowhere to be found.[a]

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
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Proverbs 22:2

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Proverbs 22:2 New International Version (NIV)

2 Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.

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Proverbs 22:7

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Proverbs 22:7 New International Version (NIV)

7 The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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Proverbs 23:4-5

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Proverbs 23:4-5 New International Version (NIV)

Saying 8

4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
    do not trust your own cleverness.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

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Proverbs 27:7

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Proverbs 27:7 New International Version (NIV)

7 One who is full loathes honey from the comb,
    but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

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Proverbs 28:6

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Proverbs 28:6 New International Version (NIV)

6 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.

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Proverbs 28:8

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Proverbs 28:8 New International Version (NIV)

8 Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor
    amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

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Proverbs 28:11

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Proverbs 28:11 New International Version (NIV)

11 The rich are wise in their own eyes;
    one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.

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Proverbs 28:20-22

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Proverbs 28:20-22 New International Version (NIV)

20 A faithful person will be richly blessed,
    but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.

21 To show partiality is not good—
    yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.

22 The stingy are eager to get rich
    and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

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Proverbs 3:27-28

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Proverbs 3:27-28 New International Version (NIV)

27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
    when it is in your power to act.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you”—
    when you already have it with you.

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Proverbs 11:24-26

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Proverbs 11:24-26 New International Version (NIV)

24 One person gives freely, yet gains even more;
    another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

25 A generous person will prosper;
    whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.

26 People curse the one who hoards grain,
    but they pray God’s blessing on the one who is willing to sell.

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Proverbs 13:22

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