Thematic Bible: Parsimony
Thematic Bible
Parsimony » General references to
"{Why} was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"
[For] he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but [for] he who turns his eyes, [there are] many curses.
He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.
You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering nor honored me [with] your sacrifice. I have not made you serve with offerings, nor have I made you weary with frankincense.
a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured [it] out on his head [while he] was reclining at table. And [when] the disciples saw [it] they were indignant, saying, "{Why} this waste?
Will a human [dare to] rob God? Yet you [are] robbing me! And you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In the tithes and the contributions!
There is one who gives yet {grows richer}, but he who withholds {what is right} only [finds] need.
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.
Parsimony » In withholding offerings
You have not bought me spice reed with money or satisfied me [with] the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities.
And then I came to learn that the food of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, the doers of the work, had gone back each to his field.
They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. And they did not burn incense or offer burnt offerings in the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
Will a human [dare to] rob God? Yet you [are] robbing me! And you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In the tithes and the contributions!
Now a certain man {named} Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and he kept back for himself [some] of the proceeds, and [his] wife was aware of [it]. And he brought a certain part [and] placed [it] at the feet of the apostles.
Poverty » Contributing causes of sinful » Parsimony
There is one who gives yet {grows richer}, but he who withholds {what is right} only [finds] need.