Proverbs 3:9-10
Revised Standard Version
9 Honor the Lord with your substance
and with the first fruits of all your produce;
10 then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 3:9-10
American Standard Version
9 Honor Jehovah with thy substance,
And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty,
And thy vats shall overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 3:27-28
Revised Standard Version
27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it[a] is due,
when it is in your power to do it.
28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,
tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 3:27 Heb Do not withhold good from its owners
Proverbs 3:27-28
American Standard Version
27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due,
When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
28 Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again,
And to-morrow I will give;
When thou hast it by thee.
Proverbs 11:24-25
Revised Standard Version
24 One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer;
another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
25 A liberal man will be enriched,
and one who waters will himself be watered.
Proverbs 11:24-25
American Standard Version
24 There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more;
And there is that withholdeth [a]more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat;
And he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 11:24 Or, what is justly due
Proverbs 21:26
Revised Standard Version
26 All day long the wicked covets,[a]
but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:26 Gk: Heb all day long he covets covetously
Proverbs 21:26
American Standard Version
26 There is that coveteth greedily all the day long;
But the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.
Proverbs 22:9
Revised Standard Version
9 He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed,
for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 22:9
American Standard Version
9 He that hath a [a]bountiful eye shall be blessed;
For he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 22:9 Hebrew good.
Proverbs 23:6
Revised Standard Version
6 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;
do not desire his delicacies;
Proverbs 23:6
American Standard Version
6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
Neither desire thou his dainties:
Proverbs 25:14
Revised Standard Version
14 Like clouds and wind without rain
is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.
Proverbs 25:14
American Standard Version
14 As clouds and wind without rain,
So is he that boasteth himself [a]of his gifts falsely.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 25:14 Hebrew in a gift of falsehood.
Proverbs 25:21-22
Revised Standard Version
21 If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat;
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
and the Lord will reward you.
Proverbs 25:21-22
American Standard Version
21 If [a]thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
22 For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head,
And Jehovah will reward thee.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 25:21 Hebrew he that hateth thee.
Proverbs 28:27
Revised Standard Version
27 He who gives to the poor will not want,
but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Proverbs 28:27
American Standard Version
27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack;
But he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
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