Genesis 47:23

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,