It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Proverbs 3:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Withhold not good from those to whom it is due [its rightful owners], when it is in the power of your hand to do it. [Rom. 13:7; Gal. 6:10.] American Standard Version (1901) Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it. Common English Bible Don’t withhold good from someone who deserves it, when it is in your power to do so. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not prevent him who is able from doing good. When you are able, do good yourself too. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also. |
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.
And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.