Proverbs 11:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:17 : 17 The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He generously gives to the needy; his integrity endures. He will be vindicated and honored.
  • Luke 6:38 : 38 Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.”
  • 2 Cor 9:5-9 : 5 Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do. 6 My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work. 9 Just as it is written,“He has scattered widely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.” 10 Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow. 11 You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,
  • Deut 15:10 : 10 You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
  • Acts 11:29-30 : 29 So the disciples, each in accordance with his financial ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea. 30 They did so, sending their financial aid to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.
  • Hag 1:6 : 6 You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 ‘You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little. And when you would bring it home, I would blow it right away. Why?’ asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.‘Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house! 10 This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce. 11 Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’”
  • Hag 2:16-19 : 16 From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty. 17 I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD. 18 ‘Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the LORD was resumed, think about it. 19 The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.’”
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
  • Eccl 11:1-2 : 1 Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return. 2 Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 11:25-26
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    25A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.

    26People will curse the one who withholds grain, but they will praise the one who sells it.

  • Prov 13:7
    77%

    7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.

  • Prov 13:22-23
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    22A good person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.

    23Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

  • Prov 21:26
    76%

    26All day long he has craved greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

  • Prov 22:16
    76%

    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Prov 13:11
    75%

    11Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
    75%

    6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Prov 10:4
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    4The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.

  • Prov 28:19-20
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    74%

    19The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.

    20A faithful person will have an abundance of blessings, but the one who hastens to gain riches will not go unpunished.

  • Matt 13:12
    74%

    12For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

  • Prov 22:9
    74%

    9A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.

  • Mark 4:25
    73%

    25For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

  • Matt 25:29
    73%

    29For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

  • Prov 10:22
    73%

    22The blessing from the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.

  • Prov 28:22
    73%

    22The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

  • Eccl 5:11
    73%

    11When someone’s prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?

  • Prov 14:23
    73%

    23In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

  • 2 Cor 8:15
    72%

    15as it is written:“The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

  • Prov 21:5
    72%

    5The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    72%

    28The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

    29The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.

  • Prov 19:17
    71%

    17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.

  • 2 Cor 9:9-10
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    71%

    9Just as it is written,“He has scattered widely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.”

    10Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

    3A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • Ps 37:16
    71%

    16The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men,

  • Eccl 11:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

    2Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth.

  • Luke 12:21
    70%

    21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

  • Ps 107:37
    70%

    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Ps 37:21
    70%

    21Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.

  • Luke 19:26
    70%

    26‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

  • Luke 12:16
    70%

    16He then told them a parable:“The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

  • Prov 11:23
    70%

    23The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”

  • Eccl 11:6
    70%

    6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

  • Prov 21:20
    70%

    20There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.

  • Prov 15:6
    70%

    6In the house of the righteous is abundant wealth, but the income of the wicked will be ruined.

  • Prov 12:11
    69%

    11The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks sense.

  • Prov 19:4
    69%

    4Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.

  • Prov 28:6
    69%

    6A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.

  • Prov 16:8
    69%

    8Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice.