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 3:27-28
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 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 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 22:9
Revised Standard Version
9 He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed,
for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 23:6
Revised Standard Version
6 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;
do not desire his delicacies;
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 25:21-22
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 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.
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