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Proverbs 3:9-10 (Listen)

Honor the Lord with your wealth

and with qthe firstfruits of all your produce;

10 then your rbarns will be filled with plenty,

and your vats will be bursting with wine.

Proverbs 3:27-28 (Listen)

27 rDo not withhold good from those to whom it is due,1

when it is in your power to do it.

28 sDo not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,

tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

Footnotes

[1] 3:27 Hebrew Do not withhold good from its owners

Proverbs 11:24-25 (Listen)

24 jOne gives kfreely, yet grows all the richer;

another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

25 lWhoever brings blessing mwill be enriched,

and none who waters will himself be watered.

Proverbs 21:26 (Listen)

26 All day long he craves and craves,

but the righteous hgives and does not hold back.

Proverbs 22:9 (Listen)

aWhoever has a bountiful1 eye will be blessed,

for he bshares his bread with the poor.

Footnotes

[1] 22:9 Hebrew good

Proverbs 23:6 (Listen)

gDo not eat the bread of a man who is hstingy;1

ido not desire his delicacies,

Footnotes

[1] 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil

Proverbs 25:14 (Listen)

14 Like cclouds and wind without rain

is a man who dboasts of a gift he does not give.

Proverbs 25:21-22 (Listen)

21 kIf your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat,

and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

22 for you will heap lburning coals on his head,

and the Lord will reward you.

Proverbs 28:27 (Listen)

27 Whoever vgives to the poor will not want,

but he who whides his eyes will get many a curse.