22 (A)A good name is to be chosen above great riches, and [a]loving favor is above silver and above gold.

(B)The rich and poor [b]meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:1 Which cometh by well doing.
  2. Proverbs 22:2 Live together, and have need the one of the other.

The rich ruleth the poor, and the borrower is servant to the man that lendeth.

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He that hath a good [a]eye, he shall be blessed: for he giveth of his bread unto the poor.

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  1. Proverbs 22:9 He that is merciful and liberal.

16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase himself, and giveth unto the rich, shall surely come to poverty.

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26 Be not thou of them that [a]tough the hand, nor among them that are surety for debts.

27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from under thee?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:26 Which rashly put themselves in danger for others, as Prov. 6:2.

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