Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
God's Promises » Special promises to children, examples of » To the merciful
For and if ye shall forgive other men their trespasses, your heavenly father shall also forgive you.
Yea If thou layest away thy burdens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceasest from blasphemous talking; if thou hast compassion upon the hungry, and refreshest the troubled soul: Then shall thy light spring out in the darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon day.
The LORD shall refresh him, when he lieth sick upon his bed, yea thou makest his bed in all his sickness.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
He hath dispersed abroad, and given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
Give, and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosoms. For with what measure ye mete, with the same shall men mete to you again."
And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.'
Wherefore, O king, be content with my counsel, that thou mayest lose thy sins with righteousness, and thine offenses with mercy to poor people: for such things shall prolong thy peace."
He that hath a gentle liberal stomach is merciful; but whoso hurteth his neighbour, is a tyrant.
He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.
Honor » Those that honor the lord
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel sayeth, 'I said that thine house and the house of thy father should have walked before me forever. But now the LORD sayeth that be far from me: for them that honoureth me I will honour, and they that despise me, shall not be regarded.
He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.
Mercy » Who shows mercy
The ungodly borroweth, and payeth not again, but the righteous is merciful and liberal.
He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.
Mercy » Should be shown » To the poor
Wherefore, O king, be content with my counsel, that thou mayest lose thy sins with righteousness, and thine offenses with mercy to poor people: for such things shall prolong thy peace."
He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.
Oppression » Those that oppress the poor
Whoso doth a poor man wrong, to increase his own riches, and giveth unto the rich to please him, at the last cometh to poverty himself.
He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, "For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there. I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding. read more.
Knowest thou not this, namely: that from the beginning - ever since the creation of man upon earth - the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye? Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds: yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?' He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night. So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more. "His children shall be fain to agree with the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth. When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue. That he favoured, that would he not forsake; but kept it close in his throat. The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body. The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly. He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him: so that he shall no more see the rivers, and brooks of honey and butter. But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them. And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.
Knowest thou not this, namely: that from the beginning - ever since the creation of man upon earth - the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye? Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds: yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?' He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night. So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more. "His children shall be fain to agree with the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth. When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue. That he favoured, that would he not forsake; but kept it close in his throat. The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body. The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly. He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him: so that he shall no more see the rivers, and brooks of honey and butter. But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them. And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.
One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.
The poor » By oppressing, God is reproached
He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.
Reviling and reproaching » The wicked utter, against » God, by oppressing the poor
He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.