Proverbs 3:9-10
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9 Honor the Lord with your wealth
and with the first of all your crops.
10 Then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will burst with wine.
Proverbs 10:15
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15 The riches of the wealthy are their strong city;
the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 11:4
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4 Riches don’t help in the day of wrath,
but righteousness rescues from death.
Proverbs 11:28
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28 Those who trust in their wealth will wither,
but the righteous will thrive like leafy trees.
Proverbs 13:8
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8 Wealth can ransom a person’s life,
but the poor don’t even receive threats.
Proverbs 14:20
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20 Even their neighbors hate the poor,
but many love the wealthy.
Proverbs 14:24
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24 Wealth is the crown of the wise,
and the folly of fools is folly.
Proverbs 15:16-17
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16 Better a little with fear of the Lord
than a great treasure with turmoil.
17 Better a meal of greens with love
than a plump calf with hate.
Proverbs 17:5
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5 Those who mock the poor insult their maker;
those who rejoice in disaster won’t go unpunished.
Proverbs 17:16
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16 Why should a fool have money
to pay for wisdom? He has no mind.
Proverbs 18:11
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11 The riches of the wealthy are a strong city
and like a high wall in their imagination.
Proverbs 18:23
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23 The poor plead for help,
but the wealthy answer harshly.
Proverbs 19:4
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4 Riches increase one’s friends,
but the poor lose their friends.
Proverbs 19:6-7
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6 Many seek favor from rulers;
everyone befriends a gift giver.
7 All the relatives of the poor hate them;
even more, their friends stay far from them.
When they pursue them with words, they aren’t there.
Proverbs 22:2
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2 The rich and the poor have this in common:
the Lord made them both.
Proverbs 22:7
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7 The wealthy rule over the poor;
a borrower is a slave to a lender.
Proverbs 23:4-5
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4 Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;
be smart enough to stop.
5 When your eyes fly to wealth
it is gone; it grows wings
like an eagle and flies heavenward.
Proverbs 27:7
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7 Someone who is full refuses honey,
but anything bitter tastes sweet to a hungry person.
Proverbs 28:6
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6 Better to be poor and walk in innocence
than to be on crooked paths and wealthy.
Proverbs 28:8
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8 Those who become rich through high interest rates
gather money for those who are generous to the poor.
Proverbs 28:11
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11 Rich people think they are wise,
but an insightful poor person sees through them.
Proverbs 28:20-22
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20 Reliable people will have abundant blessings,
but those with get-rich-quick schemes won’t go unpunished.
21 Those who show favoritism aren’t good;
people do wrong for a crust of bread.
22 The stingy try to get rich fast,
unaware that loss will come to them.
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