Proverbs 28:22
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
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But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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.
Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
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.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.
Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
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.
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
“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.”
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
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.
Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
“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 when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
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!
“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?’
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;
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.
Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.
When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
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.
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
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.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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.
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
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.
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!”
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,
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
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.
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.