Proverbs 3:27Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.
Douay-Rheims

אַל־תִּמְנַע־ט֥וֹב מִבְּעָלָ֑יו בִּהְי֨וֹת לְאֵ֖ל ידיך יָדְךָ֣ לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Nikolaj Velimirovic

20th centuryChurch Father

O man, be thankful to God that there are those who wish good for you, whether material or spiritual. This means that you are a person to whom God has entrusted some of His goods, for everything belongs to God. Show yourself worthy of this trust; show yourself worthy in small things, so that greater things may be entrusted to you.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Gal 6:10Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Jas 2:15And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food:
Jas 2:16And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?
Rom 13:7Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.
Jas 5:4Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Gen 31:29It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
Mic 2:1Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.