Proverbs 11:24
If you give generously you receive more, but if you keep back what you should give, you end up poor.
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23Good people want what's best, but what the wicked hope for ends in death.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:10Give and give again to them, and don't feel irritated when you give. When you give generously the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you decide to do.
Psalms 112:9They share generously, giving to the poor; the good they do has eternal results. They are greatly respected.
Proverbs 19:17If you're kind to the poor, you're lending to the Lord, and he will repay you well for what you've done.
Ecclesiastes 11:1Send your bread out on the surface of the water, and many days later you will find it again.
Haggai 1:6You have sown much but harvested little. You eat but you're still hungry. You drink but you're still thirsty. You put on clothes but you're still cold. You work hard to earn money but put it in a bag full of holes.
Haggai 2:16how was it for you? You expected a store of grain with twenty measures but only found ten. You thought you could empty out fifty measures from the winepress but there was only twenty.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:24
23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. This tells us what the desire and expectation of the righteous and of the wicked are and how they will prove, what they would have and what they shall have. 1. The righteous would have good, only good; all they desire is that it may go well with all about them; they wish no hurt to any, but happiness to all; as to themselves, their desire is not to gratify any evil lust, but to obtain the favour of a good God and to preserve… Read the whole commentary →