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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(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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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 (A)rich man’s wealth is his strong city;
The destruction of the poor is 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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(A)Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
But (B)righteousness delivers from death.

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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 (A)He who trusts in his riches will fall,
But (B)the righteous will flourish like foliage.

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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 ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
But the poor does not hear rebuke.

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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 (A)The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor,
But [a]the rich has many (B)friends.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:20 Lit. many are the lovers of the rich

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 riches,
But the foolishness of fools is folly.

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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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16 (A)Better is a little with the fear of the Lord,
Than great treasure with trouble.
17 (B)Better is a dinner of [a]herbs where love is,
Than a fatted calf with hatred.

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  1. Proverbs 15:17 Or vegetables

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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(A)He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker;
(B)He who is glad at calamity 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 Why is there in the hand of a fool the purchase price of wisdom,
Since he has no heart for it?

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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 rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
And like a high wall in his own esteem.

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

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23 The poor man uses entreaties,
But the rich answers (A)roughly.

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