Proverbs 22:9

The generous person who shares with the poor will be blessed. It matters because open-handed kindness to the needy brings God's blessing.

Cross-references · 23

• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• 1 Tim 6:18–19that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
• Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• 1 Pet 4:9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
• Heb 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Luke 14:13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
• 2 Cor 8:1–2Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
• 2 Cor 9:6–11Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Job 31:16–20“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Isa 32:8But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
• Luke 6:35–38But 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.
• Matt 25:34–40Then 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;
• Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
• Isa 58:7–12Isn’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?
• Deut 15:7–11If 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;
• Prov 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
• Ps 41:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Mark 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
• Matt 20:15Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
• Deut 28:56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

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