Proverbs 21:26

Proverbs 21:26
All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

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Numbers 11:4
And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

James 4:2
You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

James 4:3
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

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Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

Psalms 81:11
But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

Psalms 81:13
If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

Proverbs 14:6
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

Proverbs 17:16
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

Proverbs 21:17
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

Acts 28:26
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

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Deuteronomy 15:7
If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;

Judges 8:4
Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.

Judges 8:5
And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

Judges 8:6
But the chiefs of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand that we are to give bread to your army?

2 Samuel 17:29
And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

Psalms 34:8
By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

Psalms 34:9
Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.

Psalms 34:10
The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

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?

Isaiah 58:8
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

Isaiah 58:9
Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

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Proverbs 12:10
An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

Proverbs 12:27
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

Proverbs 18:9
He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

Proverbs 20:4
The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

Proverbs 21:5
The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.

Proverbs 22:13
The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

Proverbs 27:23
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

Proverbs 27:24
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

Proverbs 27:25
The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:

Proverbs 27:27
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.

Proverbs 29:21
If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

Luke 16:3
And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.

2 Thessalonians 3:11
For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.

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Proverbs 16:10
Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

Ephesians 4:29
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

Ephesians 5:4
And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

Colossians 4:6
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.

James 1:26
If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

James 3:2
For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

James 3:3
Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.

James 3:4
And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.

James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

1 Peter 3:10
For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

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Isaiah 14:6
He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

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Proverbs 21:27
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:12
And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

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Luke 6:33
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners do the same.

Luke 6:34
And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.

Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.

2 Corinthians 8:7
And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

2 Corinthians 8:8
I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

2 Corinthians 9:12
For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;

2 Corinthians 9:13
For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;

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Psalms 37:21
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Proverbs 21:21
He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

Luke 6:30
Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.

Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Luke 6:32
If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

Luke 6:35
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

Luke 6:36
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

Romans 12:13
Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

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.

2 Corinthians 9:10
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

2 Corinthians 9:11
Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us.

2 Corinthians 9:14
While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.

Ephesians 4:28
Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

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Acts 20:33
I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.

Acts 20:34
You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

1 Thessalonians 2:5
For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

1 Thessalonians 2:6
Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

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Psalms 32:9
Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Psalms 39:1
To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Psalms 39:2
I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

Psalms 141:3
O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Proverbs 10:19
Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 13:2
A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.

Proverbs 13:3
He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

Proverbs 15:2
Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

James 1:19
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

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