Thematic Bible: Parsimony
Thematic Bible
Parsimony » General references to
Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, and given to the poor?
He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.
Thou broughtest not to me the sheep of thy burnt-offering, and thou honoredst me not with thy sacrifices I caused thee not to serve with a gift, and I wearied thee not with frankincense.
There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of costly perfumed ointment, and she poured upon the head of him, reclining at table. And his disciples seeing, felt pain, saying, For what this loss?
Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings.
There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want
There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.
Parsimony » In withholding offerings
Thou broughtest not for me a buying with silver, thou didst not satiate me with the fat of thy sacrifices also thou causedst me to serve with thy sins, thou didst weary me with thine iniquities.
And I shall know that the portions of the Levites were not given: and they will flee a man to his field, the Levites and those singing, doing the work
Also they shut up the doors of the porch, and they will put out the lights, and they burnt not incense, and they brought not up the burnt-offering in the holy place to the God of Israel.
Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings.
And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent.
Poverty » Contributing causes of sinful » Parsimony
There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want