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

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Honor the Lord with your wealth
    and with the first[a] of all your produce,
10 so your barns will be filled with abundance,
    and your vats will burst open with new wine.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:9 Or best

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

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15 The rich hide within the fortress that is their wealth,
    but the poor are dismayed due to their poverty.

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Wealth(A) is worthless in the day of wrath,(B)
    but righteousness delivers from death.(C)

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Wealth won’t help in the time of judgment,[a]
    but righteousness will deliver from death.

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  1. Proverbs 11:4 Lit. the day of wrath

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

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28 The person who trusts in his wealth will fall,
    but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.

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

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The life of a wealthy man may be held for ransom,
    but whoever is poor receives no threats.

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

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20 The poor person is shunned by his neighbor,
    but many are the friends of the wealthy.

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24 The wealth of the wise is their crown,
    but the folly of fools yields folly.(A)

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24 The crown of the wise is their wealth,
    but the stupidity of fools is just that—stupidity!

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

17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.(B)

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On Contentment and Other Good Things of Life

16 Better is a little accompanied by fear of the Lord
    than abundant wealth with turmoil.
17 A vegetarian meal[a] served with love is better
    than a big, thick steak[b] with a plateful of[c] animosity.

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  1. Proverbs 15:17 Lit. A meal of herbs
  2. Proverbs 15:17 Lit. a fattened ox
  3. Proverbs 15:17 The Heb. lacks a plateful of

Whoever mocks the poor(A) shows contempt for their Maker;(B)
    whoever gloats over disaster(C) will not go unpunished.(D)

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Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker,
    and whoever is happy about disaster
        will not go unpunished.

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

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16 What is this? A fool has enough money to buy wisdom,
    but is senseless?[a]

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  1. Proverbs 17:16 Lit. but has no heart

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

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11 The wealth of a rich person is his fortified city;
    in his own imagination, it is like a high wall.

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

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23 The poor person pleads for mercy,
    but the wealthy man responds harshly.

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