Thematic Bible: Parsimony (stinginess)
Thematic Bible
Parsimony (stinginess) » Of the disciples, when the ointment was poured upon jesus
When his disciples saw that, they had indignation saying, "What needed this waste? This ointment might have been well sold, and given to the poor."
Then said one of his disciples named Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which afterward betrayed him, "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?"
Parsimony (stinginess) » Of the jews » Toward the temple
Ye sow much, but ye bring little in; Ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled; ye deck yourselves, but ye are not warm; and he that earneth any wage, putteth it in a broken purse.
Verse Concepts
"Thus speaketh the LORD of Hosts, and sayeth, 'This people doth say: The time is not yet come to build up the LORD's house.'"
Verse Concepts
"Ye yourselves can find time to dwell in sealed houses: and shall this house lie waste?
Verse Concepts
Ye looked for much, and lo it is come to little: and though ye bring it home, yet do I blow it away. And why so, sayeth the LORD of Hosts? Even because that my house lieth so waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Verse Concepts
Parsimony (stinginess) » Punishment of
Ye looked for much, and lo it is come to little: and though ye bring it home, yet do I blow it away. And why so, sayeth the LORD of Hosts? Even because that my house lieth so waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Wherefore the heaven is forbidden to give you any dew, and the earth is forbidden to give you increase. I have called for a drought, both upon the land and upon the mountains, upon corn, upon wine, and upon oil, upon everything that the ground bringeth forth, upon men and upon cattle, yea and upon all handy labour."
Parsimony (stinginess) » Of the jews » Toward God
Should a man use falsity and deceit with God, as ye use falsity and deceit with me? Yet ye say, 'Wherein use we deceit with thee?' In tithes and heave offerings. Therefore are ye cursed with penury, because ye dissemble with me, all the sort of you.