Practice Generous Stewardship
Honor God with your income and be a giver
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Below you'll find biblical wisdom about Practice Generous Stewardship for business and life. Each proverb includes scripture references. Click "Show Scripture" to expand and read the full text from the English Standard Version.
Biblical Wisdom
These are biblical principles about practice generous stewardship, drawn from the book of Proverbs and other Scriptures.
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 3:9-10 (ESV)
9 Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.
Proverbs 11:24-26 (ESV)
24 One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. 25 Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. 26 The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 14:31 (ESV)
31 Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 19:17 (ESV)
17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 21:13 (ESV)
13 Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.
Proverbs 22:9 (ESV)
9 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 22:16 (ESV)
16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Proverbs 22:22-23 (ESV)
22 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, 23 for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him. Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Proverbs 28:22 (ESV)
22 A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 28:27 (ESV)
27 Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.