Proverbs 13:22

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

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.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

“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?’

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

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

but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.

They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

You will know also that your offspring will be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

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

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

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

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

Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

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.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

“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.

You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

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

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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.

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

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

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

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.