Isaiah 32:8
But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.
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Isaiah 32:8
But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.
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Genesis 14:22
Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 14:23
that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Genesis 21:27
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
Proverbs 18:16
A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
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Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18:4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 18:5
I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
Genesis 18:7
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
Genesis 18:8
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
Genesis 24:25
She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”
Judges 19:19
Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”
Judges 19:20
The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”
Judges 19:21
So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
Nehemiah 5:17
Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.
Acts 16:15
When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
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Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Judges 6:3
So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
Judges 6:4
They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.
Judges 6:5
For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.
Judges 6:6
Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 3:26
Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
Isaiah 32:9
Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
Isaiah 65:22
They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Ezekiel 25:4
therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.
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Ruth 3:15
He said, “Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.
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1 Samuel 9:1
Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
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1 Samuel 25:8
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.’ ”
1 Samuel 25:9
When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.
1 Samuel 25:10
Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
1 Samuel 25:11
Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”
Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 5:4
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.
James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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Ruth 2:14
At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.
1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
2 Samuel 16:1
When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.
2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
2 Samuel 17:28
brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,
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Genesis 23:6
“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
Genesis 23:11
“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
2 Samuel 24:20
Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
2 Samuel 24:21
Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
2 Samuel 24:22
Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
2 Samuel 24:24
The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Chronicles 21:22
Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
1 Chronicles 21:23
Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 21:24
King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
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2 Chronicles 7:8
So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 7:9
On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
2 Chronicles 7:10
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
2 Chronicles 30:24
For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
2 Chronicles 35:7
Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.
Ezekiel 45:17
It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
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Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
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Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
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Deuteronomy 15:14
You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Job 31:22
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Psalms 41:2
Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
Proverbs 28:27
One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
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;
Luke 14:12
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.
Luke 14:13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
2 Corinthians 9:8
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.
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,
Philippians 4:18
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.
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Psalms 45:16
Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.
Psalms 110:3
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Song of Solomon 7:2
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
Acts 2:44
All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
Acts 2:45
They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
2 Corinthians 8:1
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Hebrews 10:37
“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.
James 5:9
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
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Psalms 61:1
Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
Psalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Psalms 112:6
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
Matthew 6:14
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
1 Timothy 6:19
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
James 1:11
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
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Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
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Proverbs 14:17
He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
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Proverbs 23:6
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
Proverbs 23:7
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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Isaiah 32:1
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
Isaiah 32:2
A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 32:4
The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Romans 11:27
This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”
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Matthew 15:3
He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
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2 Kings 4:10
Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
Matthew 10:42
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”
Matthew 25:34
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Mark 9:41
For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.
Luke 8:3
and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who served them from their possessions.
Luke 14:14
and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
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,
Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
Hebrews 10:24
Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
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Matthew 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
Luke 10:38
As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
Luke 10:39
She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word.
Luke 10:40
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Genesis 24:44
then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
Deuteronomy 14:19
All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 14:29
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.
Deuteronomy 24:19
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.
Psalms 41:1
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
Matthew 10:41
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Matthew 25:35
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.
Matthew 25:40
“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.’
Philippians 4:19
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 2:10
but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
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Hebrews 3:17
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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Hebrews 3:18
To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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