Proverbs 3:9-10
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9 Honor the Lord with your substance,
and with the first fruits of all your increase;
10 so your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your presses will burst out with new wine.
Proverbs 10:15
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15 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city;
the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 11:4
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4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:28
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28 He who trusts in his riches will fall,
but the righteous will flourish as a branch.
Proverbs 13:8
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8 The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
but the poor does not hear rebuke.
Proverbs 14:20
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20 The poor is hated even by his own neighbor,
but the rich has many friends.
Proverbs 14:24
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24 The crown of the wise is their riches,
but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Proverbs 15:16-17
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16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord
than great treasure with trouble.
17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
than a fatted calf with hatred.
Proverbs 17:5
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5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker,
and he who is glad at calamities will not be unpunished.
Proverbs 17:16
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16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom,
seeing he has no heart for it?
Proverbs 18:11
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11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
and as a high wall in his own conceit.
Proverbs 18:23
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23 The poor man uses entreaties,
but the rich man answers roughly.
Proverbs 19:4
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4 Wealth makes many friends,
but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
Proverbs 19:6-7
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6 Many will entreat the favor of the prince,
and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.
7 All the brothers of the poor hate him;
how much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words,
yet they abandon him.
Proverbs 22:2
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2 The rich and poor have this in common,
the Lord is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 22:7
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7 The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 23:4-5
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Saying Eight
4 Do not labor to be rich;
cease from your own wisdom.
5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 27:7
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7 The full soul loathes a honeycomb,
but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs 28:6
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6 Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness
than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs 28:8
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8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his substance
will gather it for him who will pity the poor.
Proverbs 28:11
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11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit,
but the poor who has understanding searches him out.
Proverbs 28:20-22
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20 A faithful man will abound with blessings,
but he who makes haste to be rich will not be innocent.
21 To show partiality is not good,
because for a morsel of bread that man will transgress.
22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye,
and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.
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