Verse 5

A good man is mercyfull and lendeth: he wyll guyde his wordes with discretion.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:25-26 : 25 I haue ben a young chylde, and nowe I am olde: and yet sawe I neuer the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begyng bread. 26 The righteous is euer mercifull and lendeth: and his seede is blessed.
  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 If one of thy brethren among you be poore within any of thy gates in thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee: thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut to thine hande from thy poore brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hande vnto hym, and lende hym sufficient for his neede which he hath. 9 Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, that thou wouldest say, the seuenth yere, the yere of freedome is at hande: and therfore it greeueth thee to loke on thy poore brother, and geuest hym naught, and he then crye vnto the Lorde agaynst thee, and it be sinne vnto thee: 10 Thou shalt geue hym, and let it not greeue thine heart to geue vnto hym: Because that for this thyng the Lorde thy God shall blesse thee in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande to.
  • Job 31:16-20 : 16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne: 17 If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof: 18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe) 19 If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment: 20 If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
  • Ps 37:21 : 21 The vngodly boroweth and payeth not agayne: but the righteous geueth mercifully and liberally.
  • Prov 2:20 : 20 Therfore walke thou in the way of such as be vertuous, & kepe the pathes of the righteous.
  • Prov 12:2 : 2 A good man is acceptable vnto the Lorde: but the wicked imaginer wyll he condempne.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 Who so promiseth by the hande and is suretie for his neighbour, he is a foole.
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 Who so is slouthfull in his labour, is the brother of hym that is a waster.
  • Prov 22:26-27 : 26 Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes: 27 For if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from vnder thee.
  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Make redie thy worke that is without, and looke well vnto that whiche thou hast in the fielde: and then buylde thyne house.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the foolishe man: 31 And lo, it was all couered with nettles, and stoode full of thornes, and the stone wall was broken downe. 32 This I sawe, and considered it well: I looked vpon it, and toke it for a warning. 33 Yea sleepe on styll I say a litle, slumber a litle, folde thy handes together yet a litle: 34 So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie lyke a weaponed man.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes. 24 For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer. 25 The hay groweth, the grasse commeth vp, and hearbes are gathered in the mountaynes. 26 The lambes shall clothe thee, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry. 27 Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens.
  • Luke 6:35 : 35 But loue ye your enemies, & do good, and lende, lokyng for nothyng agayne: and your rewarde shalbe great, and ye shalbe the chyldren of the hyest: for he is kynde vnto the vnkynde, & to the euyll.
  • Luke 23:50 : 50 And beholde, there was a man named Ioseph, a councellour, and he was a good man and a iust:
  • John 6:12 : 12 When they had eaten enough, he saide vnto his disciples: Gather vp the broke meate that remayneth, that nothyng be lost.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 For he was a good man, and full of the holy ghost, and of fayth: And much people was added vnto the Lorde.
  • Rom 5:7 : 7 Nowe scace wyll any man dye for the righteous: Yet peraduenture for the good some men durst dye.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 Not lither in businesse, feruent in spirite, seruyng the Lorde,
  • Eph 5:15 : 15 Take heede therfore howe ye walke circumspectlye: not as vnwyse, but as wyse,
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your loue may abounde yet more and more in knowledge, and in all vnderstandyng:
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walke in wisdome towarde the that are without, redeemyng the tyme.