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 don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Ps 112:5It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
• Prov 22:7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
• Luke 6:30Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Deut 28:12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
• 2 Cor 8:9For 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.
• 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.’”
• Isa 58:7–10Isn’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?
• 2 Cor 9:6–15Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Deut 15:9–11Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
• Job 31:16–20“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Neh 5:1–5Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
• Isa 32:8But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
• Deut 28:43–44The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
• 2 Kgs 4:1–5Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
• Acts 11:29As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
• 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.

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