Proverbs 11:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:7 : 7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
  • 2 Cor 9:6-9 : 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.”
  • Prov 28:27 : 27 The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.
  • Isa 32:8 : 8 An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.
  • Isa 58:7-9 : 7 I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood! 8 Then your light will shine like the sunrise; your restoration will quickly arrive; your godly behavior will go before you, and the LORD’s splendor will be your rear guard. 9 Then you will call out, and the LORD will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply,‘Here I am.’ You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully. 10 You must actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. Then your light will dispel the darkness, and your darkness will be transformed into noonday. 11 The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.
  • Job 29:13-18 : 13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice; 14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban; 15 I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame; 16 I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know; 17 I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth. 18 Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
  • Job 31:16-20 : 16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans– 18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow! 19 If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat, 20 whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,
  • Matt 25:34-35 : 34 Then the king will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Isa 58:10-11
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    10 You must actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. Then your light will dispel the darkness, and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.

    11 The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.

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    21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food 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.

  • 23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

  • Ps 65:9-10
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    9 You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way.

    10 You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

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

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

  • 30 The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.

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

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

  • 14 A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

  • 14 The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

  • 25 I will fully satisfy the needs of those who are weary and fully refresh the souls of those who are faint.

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

  • 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.”

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

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

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

  • 17 A kind person benefits himself, but a cruel person brings himself trouble.

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

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

  • 7 You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • 9 For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.

  • 8 An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.

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

  • 25 The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked will be empty.

  • 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.

  • 4 The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

  • 10 then your barns will be filled completely, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

  • 14 You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

  • 25 The greedy person stirs up dissension, but the one who trusts in the LORD will prosper.

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

  • 20 From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied, with the product of his lips he will be satisfied.

  • 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

  • 20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

  • 10 he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • 10 The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

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

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

  • 16 Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

  • 26 All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, and his children are blessed.

  • 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

  • 13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.