TOPICAL BIBLE

Parsimony (Stinginess)

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Haggai 1:2that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”Haggai 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.Haggai 1:10Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.Haggai 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.Malachi 3:9You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.Matthew 26:8When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste?Matthew 26:9This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”John 12:4But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked,John 12:5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”