Proverbs 11:17

Kindness benefits the one who shows it, while cruelty harms the one who practices it. How we treat others rebounds on our own well-being.

Cross-references · 17

• Matt 5:7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
• Matt 25:34–40Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
• Jas 2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
• 2 Cor 9:6–14But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
• Phil 4:17Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
• Matt 6:14–15For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
• Ps 41:1–4Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
• Dan 4:27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
• Jas 5:1–5Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Isa 57:1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
• Prov 15:27He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
• Eccl 4:8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
• Luke 6:38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
• Ps 112:4–9Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
• Isa 58:7–12Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
• Isa 32:7–8The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
• Job 20:19–23Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

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