Proverbs 19:22

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Summary

Proverbs 19:22

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

Desire

2 Corinthians 8:2

And

Titus 1:2

General references

Proverbs 28:6

Bible References

Desire

I have made every effort to prepare materials for the Temple: gold, silver, bronze, iron, timber, precious stones and gems, stones for mosaics, and quantities of marble.

However, Jehovah said to my father David: Since you had your heart set on building a Temple for my name, your intentions were good.

He sat down near the collection boxes and observed how the crowd dropped money into the boxes. Many that were rich dropped in much.

Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She did a good thing to me.

Out of severe affliction they have an abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounds in the riches of their generosity.

And

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

Whoever turns in friends to get their property should have his children's eyesight fail.

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

It is in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal.

General references

Better is the poor man who walks in uprightness, than the rich man who is perverse in his ways.