Proverbs 21:26

Proverbs 21:26
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

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Numbers 11:4
The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

James 4:2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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Deuteronomy 5:29
Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Psalms 81:11
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Psalms 81:12
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Acts 28:26
saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

Acts 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

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Deuteronomy 15:7
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;

Judges 8:4
Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

Judges 8:5
He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Judges 8:6
The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”

2 Samuel 17:29
honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Psalms 34:8
Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Psalms 34:9
Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Isaiah 58:7
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?

Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Isaiah 58:10
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;

Isaiah 58:11
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.

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Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 12:24
The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Proverbs 12:27
The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

Proverbs 27:23
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds,

Proverbs 27:24
for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

Proverbs 27:25
The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.

Proverbs 27:27
There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

Proverbs 29:21
He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

Luke 16:3
“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

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Proverbs 16:10
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 5:4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

James 3:4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

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Isaiah 14:6
who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

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Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

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Luke 6:33
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Luke 6:34
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

Luke 16:9
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.

2 Corinthians 8:7
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.

2 Corinthians 8:8
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

2 Corinthians 9:12
For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,

2 Corinthians 9:13
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

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Psalms 37:21
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Proverbs 21:21
He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Luke 6:30
Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

Luke 6:31
“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Luke 6:32
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Luke 6:35
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.

Luke 6:36
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Romans 12:13
contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

2 Corinthians 9:10
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

2 Corinthians 9:11
you being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.

2 Corinthians 9:14
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

Ephesians 4:28
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.

1 Timothy 6:9
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.

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Acts 20:33
I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

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Psalms 32:9
Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 13:2
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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