Proverbs 21:26 Cross References - CLV

²⁶ All the day he yearns with yearning, Yet the righteous one gives and does not keep back."

²⁶ The entire day he is generous and obliging, And his seed becomes a blessing."

⁹ He disperses; he gives to the needy; His righteousness is standing into the future; His horn shall be exalted in glory.

⁴² To him who requests you, give; and from him who wants to borrow from you, you may not turn.

³⁰ Now you, be giving to everyone who is requesting, and from him who is taking away what is yours be not demanding it." ³¹ And, according as you are wanting that men may be doing to you, you also be doing to them likewise." ³² And if you are loving those loving you, what thanks is it to you? For sinners also are loving those loving them." ³³ And if you should be doing good to those doing good to you, what thanks is it to you? For sinners also are doing the same." ³⁴ And if you should ever be lending to those from whom you are expecting to get back, what thanks is it to you? For sinners also are lending to sinners, that they may get back the equivalent." ³⁵ Moreover, be loving your enemies, and be doing good, and be lending, expecting nothing from them, and your wages will be vast in the heavens, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked." ³⁶ Become, then, pitiful, according as your Father also is pitiful."

³³ I covet no one's silver or gold or vesture." ³⁴ You know that these hands subserve my needs, and of those who are with me." ³⁵ All I intimate to you, that, thus toiling, you must be supporting the infirm. Besides, remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'Happy is it to give rather than to get.'"

⁷ But, even as you are superabounding in everything - in faith and word and knowledge and all diligence and the love that flows out of you into us - that you may be superabounding in this grace also." ⁸ I am not saying this as an injunction, but, through the diligence of others, testing also the genuineness of this love of yours." ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being rich, because of you He became poor, that you, by His poverty, should be rich."

⁹ according as it is written, He scatters, He gives to the drudges, His righteousness remains for the eon." ¹⁰ Now may He Who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, be furnishing and multiplying your seed and be making the product of your righteousness grow, ¹¹ being enriched in everything, for all the generosity, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God, ¹² for the dispensation of this ministry not only is replenishing the wants of the saints, but is superabounding also through much thanksgiving, to God, ¹³ through the testedness of this dispensation, glorifying God at the subjection of your avowal to the evangel of Christ, and in the generosity of the contribution for them and for all, ¹⁴ and in their petition for you, longing to be acquainted with you, because of the transcendent grace of God on you."

²⁸ Let him who steals by no means still be stealing: yet rather let him be toiling, working with his hands at what is good, that he may have to share with one who has need."

⁵ For neither did we at any time become flattering in expression, according as you are aware; neither with a pretense for greed, God is witness;" ⁶ neither seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, when we could be a burden as Christ's apostles." ⁷ But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse should be cherishing her own children." ⁸ Thus being ardently attached to you, we are delighting to share with you not only the evangel of God, but our own souls also, because you came to be beloved by us." ⁹ For you remember, brethren, our toil and labor: working night and day so as not to be burdensome to any of you, we herald to you the evangel of God."