Psalms 37:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

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  • Ps 112:5 : 5 All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
  • Prov 22:7 : 7 The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
  • Deut 28:12 : 12 Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
  • Deut 15:9-9 : 9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you. 10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand. 11 For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.
  • 2 Cor 9:6-9 : 6 But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them. 7 Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver. 8 And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work: 9 As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever. 10 And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness; 11 Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us. 12 For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God; 13 For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all; 14 While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you. 15 Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.
  • Heb 6:10 : 10 For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
  • Deut 28:43-44 : 43 The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower. 44 He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.
  • 2 Kgs 4:1-5 : 1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt. 2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil. 3 Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them. 4 Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones. 5 So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. 2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs. 3 And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need. 4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
  • Job 31:16-20 : 16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; 17 If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father; 18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;) 19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; 20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
  • Isa 32:8 : 8 But the noble-hearted man has noble purposes, and by these he will be guided.
  • Isa 58:7-9 : 7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh? 8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you. 9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word; 10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
  • Luke 6:30 : 30 Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.
  • Acts 11:29 : 29 And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 19:17
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    17He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

  • Prov 21:26
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    26All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

  • Ps 37:26
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    26All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Ps 112:4-5
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    4For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

    5All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

  • Prov 11:17-18
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    17The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.

    18The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

  • Ps 37:22
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    22Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • Prov 13:21-22
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    21Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

    22The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

  • Prov 11:31
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    31If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

  • Prov 29:7
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    7The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

  • Ps 37:16-17
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    16The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

    17For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

  • Luke 6:34
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    34And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.

  • Prov 10:2-3
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    2Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

    3The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

  • Prov 22:7-8
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    7The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

    8By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

  • Prov 28:27-28
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    27He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

    28When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

  • Ps 37:32
    74%

    32The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Job 35:7
    74%

    7If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

  • Ezek 33:15
    73%

    15If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 11:8
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    8The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

  • Exod 22:25
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    25If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Prov 3:27
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    27Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
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    7And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

    8And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

  • Job 36:6
    72%

    6His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

  • Isa 5:23
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    23Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • Prov 21:12
    72%

    12The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

  • Prov 14:31-32
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    31He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

    32The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

  • Prov 11:4
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    4Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Ps 15:5
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    5He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

  • Ps 28:4
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    4Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

  • Ps 32:10
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    10The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

  • Prov 15:28
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    28The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

  • Isa 26:10
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    10Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.

  • Prov 17:13
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    13If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

  • Prov 12:21
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    21No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.