Proverbs 23:6

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

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

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

“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.”

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

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

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

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.

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.

that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

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

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

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

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

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;

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.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

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.

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

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’ ”

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

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

Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

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 who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

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.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.