Proverbs 28:27

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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 we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

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

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

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

Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

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

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.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

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.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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 may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

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

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

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.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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

Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

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

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

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

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.

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.

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 has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

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

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

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

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

However there will be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)

You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.