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

Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.

And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Righteous

It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.

Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

But the noble deviseth noble things; and to noble things doth he stand.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

To every one that asks of thee, give; and from him that takes away what is thine, ask it not back.

And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister to them;

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might be enriched.

But this is true, he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in the spirit of blessing shall reap also in blessing:

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

But of doing good and communicating of your substance be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

General references

To him that asks of thee give, and from him that desires to borrow of thee turn not away.