Proverbs 13:11

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

“You shall not steal.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

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

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

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

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

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

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

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

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.’”

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“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 say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

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.