Psalm 37:21

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Summary

Psalm 37:21

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

Borroweth

Righteous

General references

Matthew 5:42

Bible References

Borroweth

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

Righteous

All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

But the noble-hearted man has noble purposes, and by these he will be guided.

Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.

And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:

In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.

But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.

General references

Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.