TOPICAL BIBLE
Parsimony (Stinginess)
12 references in this topic.
Haggai 1:2Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people!—they have said, ‘The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah is to be built.’Haggai 1:4Is it time for you—you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?Haggai 1:6Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.Haggai 1:9Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore?—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running—each to his house,Haggai 1:10Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.Haggai 1:11And I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.’Malachi 3:8Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: ‘In what have we deceived Thee?’ The tithe and the heave-offering!Malachi 3:9With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving—this nation—all of it.Matthew 26:8And having seen it, his disciples were much displeased, saying, ‘To what purpose is this waste?Matthew 26:9for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.’John 12:4Therefore saith one of his disciples—Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up—John 12:5‘Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?’
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