Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
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Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
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2 Samuel 12:6
And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.
Proverbs 22:9
He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 28:27
He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.
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Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.
Nehemiah 5:9
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
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Esther 8:1
That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.
Psalms 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Luke 19:24
And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten.
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Proverbs 28:3
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Proverbs 28:11
The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
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