A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
rich
Proverbs 29:13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lightens both their eyes.
1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up.
Psalm 49:1,2 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world…
Luke 16:19,20 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
1 Corinthians 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: nor again …
James 2:2-5 For if there come to your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly …
the lord
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors …
Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion …
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor …
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
prudent
Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple …
Exodus 9:20,21 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh …
Isaiah 26:20,21 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors …
Matthew 24:15-18 When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken …
1 Thessalonians 5:2-6 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God …
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved …
the simple
Proverbs 7:7,22,23 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a …
Proverbs 9:16-18 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants …
Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be …
By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
by the reward of humility
Proverbs 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.
Proverbs 21:21 He that follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, …
Psalm 34:9,10 O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him…
Psalm 112:1-3 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …
Isaiah 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and …
Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …
Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and …
1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable to …
James 4:6,10 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
train up a child
Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you …
Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk …
Psalm 78:3-6 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us…
Ephesians 6:4 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them …
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures…
the way
1 Samuel 1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives he …
1 Samuel 2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favor both with the LORD, …
1 Samuel 12:2,3 And now, behold, the king walks before you: and I am old and gray …
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
rich
Proverbs 22:16,22 He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives …
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors …
Proverbs 18:23 The poor uses entreaties; but the rich answers roughly.
Amos 2:6 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, …
Amos 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, …
Amos 5:11,12 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take …
Amos 8:4,6 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor …
James 2:6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and …
James 5:1,4 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
the borrower
2 Kings 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets …
Nehemiah 5:4,5 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's …
Isaiah 24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with …
Matthew 18:25 But for as much as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be …
lender
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
that
Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …
Hosea 10:13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten …
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
the rod of his anger shall fail
Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the …
Psalm 125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous; …
Isaiah 9:4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his …
Isaiah 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not you, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote …
Isaiah 30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, …
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
he that hath a bountiful eye
Proverbs 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered …
Proverbs 19:17 He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he …
Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry …
Deuteronomy 15:7-11 If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any …
Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you…
Job 31:16-20 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the …
Psalm 41:1-3 Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him …
Psalm 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures …
Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 Cast your bread on the waters: for you shall find it after many days…
Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Isaiah 58:7-12 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the …
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye …
Matthew 25:34-40 Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed …
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil …
Luke 6:35-38 But love you your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing …
Acts 20:35 I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support …
2 Corinthians 8:1,2 Moreover, brothers, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed …
2 Corinthians 9:6-11 But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; …
1 Timothy 6:18,19 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, …
Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, …
Hebrews 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices …
1 Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
Proverbs 21:24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud wrath.
Proverbs 26:20,21 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, …
Genesis 21:9,10 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born to …
Nehemiah 4:1-3 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we built the …
Nehemiah 13:28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, …
Psalm 101:5 Whoever privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him …
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but …
1 Corinthians 5:5,6,13 To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, …
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
that
Proverbs 16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaks right.
Psalm 101:6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell …
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
for the grace of his lips
Psalm 45:2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your …
Luke 4:22 And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which …
the king
Genesis 41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, For as much as God has showed you all …
Ezra 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the …
Nehemiah 2:4-6 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed …
Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among …
Daniel 2:46-49 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel…
Daniel 3:30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province …
Daniel 6:20-23 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice to …
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
eyes
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth…
Isaiah 59:19-21 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory …
Matthew 16:16-18 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of …
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found …
Acts 12:23,24 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
Revelation 11:3-11 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy …
Revelation 12:14-17 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she …
he
Job 5:12,13 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot …
Acts 8:9-12 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the …
Acts 13:8-12 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood …
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume …
2 Timothy 3:8,9 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist …
words or matters
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
mouth
Proverbs 2:16-19 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which …
Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth …
Proverbs 6:24-29 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue …
Proverbs 7:5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger …
Proverbs 23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Judges 16:20,21 And she said, The Philistines be on you, Samson. And he awoke out …
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many …
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares …
a deep pit that is, it is like a deep pit or pitfall, in which animals are often taken alive.
Deuteronomy 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking …
Psalm 81:12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their …
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
that oppresseth
Proverbs 22:22,23 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted …
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors …
Proverbs 28:3 A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
Job 20:19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has …
Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now …
Micah 2:2,3 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and …
Zechariah 7:9-14 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
James 5:1-5 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
he that giveth
Luke 6:33-35 And if you do good to them which do good to you, what thank have …
Luke 14:12-14 Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or …
Luke 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send …
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
bow
Proverbs 2:2-5 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding…
Proverbs 5:1,2 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding…
and hear
Proverbs 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 4:4-8 He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: …
Proverbs 8:33,34 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not…
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; …
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and …
apply
Proverbs 23:12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, …
Ecclesiastes 8:9,16 All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is …
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
it is
Proverbs 2:10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;
Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Proverbs 24:13,14 My son, eat you honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which …
Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: …
Psalm 119:103,111,162 How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!…
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was to me …
within thee
Job 32:18,19 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constrains me…
John 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly …
fitted
Proverbs 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my …
Proverbs 10:13,21 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a …
Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish …
Proverbs 16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the …
Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Psalm 119:13,171 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth…
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek …
Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, …
That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
rob
Proverbs 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, …
oppress
Proverbs 21:16 The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain …
Exodus 23:6 You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause.
Job 29:12-16 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
Job 31:16,21 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the …
Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor…
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
in the gate that is in the court of justice, which as we have already seen was held at the gates of cities in the east.
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
the lord
Proverbs 23:11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
1 Samuel 24:12,15 The LORD judge between me and you, and the LORD avenge me of you: …
1 Samuel 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the …
Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now …
Psalm 35:1,10 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against …
Psalm 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O …
Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in …
Psalm 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and …
Jeremiah 50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall …
Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and …
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against …
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
spoil
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously…
Habakkuk 2:8 Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people …
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
