Proverbs 3:27
Wisdom Demonstrated in Relationships with People Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.
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Referenced Verses
- Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.
- Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?
- Rom 13:7 : 7 Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
- Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
- Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
- Gen 31:29 : 29 I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’
- Mic 2:1 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
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28Do not say to your neighbor,“Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.
29Do not plot evil against your neighbor when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.
30Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.
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7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.
8Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.
9Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.
10You 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.
11There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.
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11Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.
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29Do not say,“I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”
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21Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.
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18It is best to take hold of one warning without letting go of the other warning; for the one who fears God will follow both warnings.
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5It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.
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27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
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4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, to the morally upright!
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6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
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3But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
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4Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!
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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.
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15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
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25Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’
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42Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.
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30Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.
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25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
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7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.
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3Trust in the LORD and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!
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17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.
- Prov 5:9-102 verses70%
9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
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17Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.
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27Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.
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26All day long he has craved greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
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13You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.
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64ת(Tav) Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to what they have done.
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3You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
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3then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.
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3Do not rush out of the king’s presence in haste– do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he can do whatever he pleases.
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3and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.
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26for the LORD will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.
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13As for the one who repays evil for good, evil will not leave his house.
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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.
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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.
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37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.
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25For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”
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27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
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3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
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17Be careful not to say,“My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth.”
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22Do not say,“I will pay back evil!” Wait for the LORD, so that he may vindicate you.
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8Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?
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17So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.