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Proverbs 11:25
25If you help other people with your money, you will do well. If you give water to thirsty people, you will not be thirsty yourself.
Proverbs 11:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
- New International Version (NIV)A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The generous soul will be made rich, And he who waters will also be watered himself.
Context of Proverbs 11:25
23Righteous people want good things to happen. Wicked people only hope to cause anger. 24Somebody may share his things with other people, but he still becomes richer. Somebody else may keep the things that he should give to others, but he still becomes poor. If you help other people with your money, you will do well. If you give water to thirsty people, you will not be thirsty yourself. 26If you refuse to sell food to hungry people, they will curse you. But if you sell it to them, they will praise you. 27If you try to do good things, people will respect you. But if you want evil things to happen, they will happen to you!
Read all of Proverbs 11Proverbs 11:25 word by word
נֶֽפֶשׁ־בְּרָכָ֥ה תְדֻשָּׁ֑ן וּ֝מַרְוֶ֗ה גַּם־ה֥וּא יוֹרֶֽא׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 11:25
- Proverbs 28:27If you give things to poor people, you will still have enough for yourself. But everyone will curse you if you refuse to help poor people.
- Job 29:13People who were near to death praised me for my help. Widows were happy when I helped them.
- Job 31:16I have never refused to help people who are poor. I have always helped widows to hope for good things.
- Isaiah 32:8But good people think of ways that they can be kind to others. They do the good things that they have decided to do.
- Isaiah 58:7Instead, share your food with hungry people. Give a place in your home to poor people who have no home. Give clothes to people who have nothing to wear. If people in your own family need help, do not refuse to help them.
- Matthew 5:7Happy are the people who help other people and who forgive them. God will forgive people like that.
- Matthew 25:34The king will say to those people who are on his right side, “Come here. My Father has been good to you. He has prepared a place for you in his kingdom. That kingdom has been ready for you since the time that God made the world.
Commentaries on Proverbs 11:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25The liberal soul shall be made fat - He who gives to the distressed, in the true spirit of charity, shall get a hundred fold from God's mercy. How wonderful is the Lord! He gives the property, gives the heart to use it aright, and recompenses the man for the deed though all the fruit was found from himself! He that watereth - A man who distributes in the right spirit gets more good himself than the poor man does who receives the bounty. Thus it is more…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25Liberal soul - literally, “the soul that blesses,” i. e., gives freely and fully. The similitudes are both of them essentially Eastern. Fatness, the sleek, well filled look of health, becomes the figure of prosperity, as leanness of misfortune Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 28:25; Psalm 22:29; Isaiah 10:16. Kindly acts come as the refreshing dew and soft rain from heaven upon a thirsty land.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25Verse 25 Both in temporal and spiritual things, God commonly deals with his people according to the measure by which they deal with their brethren.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-26Generous people who give freely to others will succeed, but those who hoard their money will lose it (see Proverbs 28:27; 2 Corinthians 9:6–9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 24-3124-31. The scope of the whole is a comment on Pr 11:23. Thus liberality, by God's blessing, secures increase, while penuriousness, instead of expected gain, procures poverty.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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