Proverbs 19:22

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Summary

Proverbs 19:22

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

Desire

2 Corinthians 8:2

And

Titus 1:2

General references

Proverbs 28:6

Bible References

Desire

Now with all my ability I have provided for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, onyx stones and inlaid stones, stones of antimony and stones of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster in abundance.

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums.

But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

And

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity

Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.

“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,

“He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil,
The eyes of his children also will languish.

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised

long ages ago,

General references

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity

Than he who is crooked though he be rich.