PARSIMONY (STINGINESS)

Passages on this topic · 12

• Haggai 1:2

  “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”

• Haggai 1:4

  “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

• Haggai 1:9

  “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

• Haggai 1:10

  Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

• Haggai 1:11

  I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”

• Malachi 3:8

  Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

• Malachi 3:9

  You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

• Matthew 26:8

  But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

• Matthew 26:9

  For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”

• John 12:4

  Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,

• John 12:5

  “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”