(A)Honor the Lord with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits of all your increase;
10 (B)So your barns will be filled with plenty,
And your vats will overflow with new wine.

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Honor Yahweh from your substance,[a]
    and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,
10 and your barns shall be full of plenty,
    and your vats shall burst with new wine.

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  1. Proverbs 3:9 Or “wealth, property”

27 (A)Do not withhold good from [a]those to whom it is due,
When it is in the power of your hand to do so.
28 (B)Do not say to your neighbor,
“Go, and come back,
And tomorrow I will give it,
When you have it with you.

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  1. Proverbs 3:27 Lit. its owners

27 Do not withhold good from its owner[a]
    when it is in the power of your hand to do.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Go and return and tomorrow I will give it,”
    when it is with you.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 3:27 Or “lord”
  2. Proverbs 3:28 Literally “and there is with you”

24 There is one who (A)scatters, yet increases more;
And there is one who withholds more than is right,
But it leads to poverty.
25 (B)The generous soul will be made rich,
(C)And he who waters will also be watered himself.

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24 There is one who gives yet grows richer,[a]
    but he who withholds what is right[b] only finds need.
25 A person of blessing will be enriched,
    and he who gives water also will be refreshed.

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  1. Proverbs 11:24 Literally “adding more”
  2. Proverbs 11:24 Literally “from what is right”

26 He covets greedily all day long,
But the righteous (A)gives and does not spare.

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26 All day[a] he craves a craving,
    but the righteous will give and not hold back.

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  1. Proverbs 21:26 Literally “All the day”

(A)He who has a [a]generous eye will be (B)blessed,
For he gives of his bread to the poor.

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  1. Proverbs 22:9 Lit. good

He who is generous[a] will be blessed,
    for he gives to the poor from his own bread.

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  1. Proverbs 22:9 Literally “the generous of eye”

Do not eat the bread of (A)a[a] miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;

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  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit. one who has an evil eye

Do not eat the bread of the stingy,[a]
    and do not desire his delicacies.

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  1. Proverbs 23:6 Literally “stingy of eye”

14 (A)Whoever falsely boasts of giving
Is like (B)clouds and wind without rain.

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14 Like clouds and wind when there is no rain,
    so too is a man who boasts in a gift of deception.

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21 (A)If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
22 For so you will heap coals of fire on his head,
(B)And the Lord will reward you.

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21 If your enemy is hungry, feed him bread,
    and if thirsty, let him drink water.
22 For coals of fire you will heap upon his head,
    and Yahweh will reward you.

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27 (A)He who gives to the poor will not lack,
But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

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27 For he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking,
    but for he[a] who turns his eyes, there are many curses.

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  1. Proverbs 28:27 Hebrew “those”