Psalms 37:21

The wicked borrow and fail to repay, but the righteous give generously. Character shows in how one handles obligations and possessions.

Cross-references · 18

• Heb 13:16But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Ps 112:5A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
• Prov 22:7The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
• Luke 6:30Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
• Ps 112:9He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
• Deut 28:12The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
• 2 Cor 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
• Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• Isa 58:7–10Is 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?
• 2 Cor 9:6–15But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
• Deut 15:9–11Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
• Job 31:16–20If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• Neh 5:1–5And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
• Isa 32:8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
• Deut 28:43–44The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
• 2 Kgs 4:1–5Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
• Acts 11:29Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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