Some give freely yet grow all the richer; others withhold what is due and only suffer want.
Proverbs 13:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Some pretend to be rich yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor yet have great wealth. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition One man considers himself rich, yet has nothing [to keep permanently]; another man considers himself poor, yet has great [and indestructible] riches. [Prov. 12:9; Luke 12:20, 21.] American Standard Version (1901) There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth. Common English Bible Some pretend to be rich but have nothing, while others pretend to be poor, but have great riches. Catholic Public Domain Version One is like the rich, though he has nothing. And another is like the poor, though he has many riches. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing: and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches. |
Some give freely yet grow all the richer; others withhold what is due and only suffer want.
Better to be despised and have produce than to be self-important and lack food.
Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but those who gather little by little will increase it.
Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life, but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”
Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!
But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.
“I know your affliction and your poverty, even though you are rich. I know the slander on the part of those who say that they are Jews and are not but are a synagogue of Satan.
For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.