THEOSISProverbs 19:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man.
תַּאֲוַ֣ת אָדָ֣ם חַסְדּ֑וֹ וְטֽוֹב־רָ֝שׁ מֵאִ֥ישׁ כָּזָֽב׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Mark 14:6But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
- Mark 14:8She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
- 2 Cor 8:12For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.
- Prov 19:1Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his lips and unwise.
- 2 Chr 6:8The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:
- Mark 12:41And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in much.
- Mark 12:44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.
- Titus 1:2Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: