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Honor the Lord with your wealth
    and with the best part of everything you produce.
10 Then he will fill your barns with grain,
    and your vats will overflow with good wine.

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9-10 Honor the Lord by giving him the first part of all your income, and he will fill your barns with wheat and barley and overflow your wine vats with the finest wines.

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15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
    the poverty of the poor is their destruction.

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15 The rich man’s wealth is his only strength. The poor man’s poverty is his only[a] curse.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:15 only . . . only, implied.

Riches won’t help on the day of judgment,
    but right living can save you from death.

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Your riches won’t help you on Judgment Day; only righteousness counts then.

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28 Trust in your money and down you go!
    But the godly flourish like leaves in spring.

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28 Trust in your money and down you go! Trust in God and flourish as a tree!

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The rich can pay a ransom for their lives,
    but the poor won’t even get threatened.

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Being kidnapped and held for ransom never worries the poor man!

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20 The poor are despised even by their neighbors,
    while the rich have many “friends.”

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20-21 Even his own neighbors despise the poor man, while the rich have many “friends.” But to despise the poor is to sin. Blessed are those who help them.

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24 Wealth is a crown for the wise;
    the effort of fools yields only foolishness.

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24 Wise men are praised for their wisdom; fools are despised for their folly.

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16 Better to have little, with fear for the Lord,
    than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.

17 A bowl of vegetables with someone you love
    is better than steak with someone you hate.

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16 Better a little with reverence for God than great treasure and trouble with it.

17 It is better to eat soup with someone you love than steak with someone you hate.

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Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
    those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished.

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Mocking the poor is mocking the God who made them. He will punish those who rejoice at others’ misfortunes.

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16 It is senseless to pay to educate a fool,
    since he has no heart for learning.

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16 It is senseless to pay tuition to educate a rebel who has no heart for truth.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:16 no heart for truth, literally, “no heart.”

11 The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense;
    they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.

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11 The rich man thinks of his wealth as an impregnable defense, a high wall of safety. What a dreamer!

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23 The poor plead for mercy;
    the rich answer with insults.

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23 The poor man pleads, and the rich man answers with insults.

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