Proverbs 3:9-10
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9
Honor the Lord with your wealth
And with the first fruits of all your crops (income);(A)
10
Then your barns will be abundantly filled
And your vats will overflow with new wine.(B)
Proverbs 3:27-28
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27
[a]Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due [its rightful recipients],
When it is in your power to do it.(A)
28
Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back,
And tomorrow I will give it,”
When you have it with you.(B)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 3:27 Using this verse as a proof text, the ancient rabbis offered the example of an employer who tells his foreman to hire workers at four zuz (small silver coins) each to do a job, and the foreman hires them at three instead. Even though they accepted the terms, the rabbis rule that they have the right to complain. Compare this with the parable of the landowner who hires workers for a denarius each. The difference there is that the first group receives a fair wage, while the last is overpaid as a matter of generosity (Matt 20:15).
Proverbs 11:24-25
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24
There is the one who [generously] scatters [abroad], and yet increases all the more;
And there is the one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want and poverty.
25
The generous man [is a source of blessing and] shall be prosperous and enriched,
And he who waters will himself be watered [reaping the generosity he has sown].(A)
Proverbs 21:26
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26
He craves all the day long [and does no work],
But the righteous [willingly] gives and does not withhold [what he has].(A)
Proverbs 22:9
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9
He who is generous will be blessed,
For he gives some of his food to the poor.(A)
Proverbs 23:6
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6
Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;
Proverbs 25:14
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14
Like clouds and wind without rain
Is a man who boasts falsely of gifts [he does not give].(A)
Proverbs 25:21-22
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21
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;(A)
22
For in doing so, you will [a]heap coals of fire upon his head,
And the Lord will reward you.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 25:22 This expression may refer to an Egyptian custom in which a penitent man carried a pan of coals on his head as a sign of repentance. The message of these verses is the admonition to return good for evil in the hope that your enemy will be moved to repentance.
Proverbs 28:27
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27
He who gives to the poor will never want,
But he who shuts his eyes [from their need] will have many curses.(A)
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