Proverbs 11:25

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.

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

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.

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

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

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

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

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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.’”

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

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

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

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

I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

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

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

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

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

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

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

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

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.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.