Proverbs 28:8

A Conservative Version

He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Leviticus 25:36

Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

Ezekiel 18:17

who has withdrawn his hand from a poor man, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes, he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

Exodus 22:25

If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Ezekiel 18:13

has given forth upon interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 18:8

he who has not given forth upon interest, nor has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed TRUE justice between man and man,

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

Proverbs 19:7

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

2 Samuel 12:6

And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

Psalm 72:13

He will have pity on a poor and needy man, and he will save the souls of the needy.

Proverbs 14:21

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, happy is he.