TOPICAL BIBLE
Parsimony (Stinginess)
12 references in this topic.
Haggai 1:2Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for Jehovah’s house to be built.Haggai 1:4Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?Haggai 1:6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.Haggai 1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.Haggai 1:10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.Haggai 1:11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.Malachi 3:9Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.Matthew 26:8But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?Matthew 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.John 12:4But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,John 12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?
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