Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
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Bible References
Desire
1 Chronicles 29:2
Moreover, I have prepared with all my might for the house of God: gold for things of gold, and silver for things of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood: and onyx stones, set stones, and of other gay stones, and all manner of precious stones, and of marble great abundance.
2 Chronicles 6:8
But the LORD said to David my father, 'Forasmuch as it was in thine heart, to build a house for my name, thou didst well that thou hadst it in thine heart.
Mark 12:41
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people put money into the treasury. And many that were rich, cast in much.
Mark 14:6
And Jesus said, "Let her be in rest. Why trouble ye her? She hath done a good work on me.
2 Corinthians 8:2
how that the abundance of their rejoicing is, that they are tried with much tribulation. And thereto, though they were exceeding poor, yet have they given exceeding richly, and that in singleness.
And
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that liveth godly, than the blasphemer that is but a fool.
Job 6:15
Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.
Job 17:5
He promiseth his friends part of his good, but his own children spend it.
Psalm 62:9
As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
Titus 1:2
which is after godliness upon the hope of eternal life; which life God, that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began:
General references
Proverbs 28:6
A poor man leading a godly life, is better than the rich that goeth in froward ways.