Proverbs 3:27
¶ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].
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Referenced Verses
- Gal 6:10 : 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
- Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?
- Rom 13:7 : 7 ¶ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
- Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
- Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Gen 31:29 : 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Mic 2:1 : 1 ¶ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
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7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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11 ¶ If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;
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29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
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21 ¶ The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
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18 [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
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5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
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27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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4 ¶ Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be] good, and [to them that are] upright in their hearts.
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6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
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3 ‹But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:›
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4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
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15 At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
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25 ¶ Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you.
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7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
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3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
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17 ¶ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
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10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
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17 Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
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