Honor the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;
lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.
the LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
Help, the LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.
Be pleased, the LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, the LORD.
"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.
Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.
The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
It will please the LORD better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
Yes, the LORD will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
May the LORD increase you more and more, you and your children.
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.
Whatever the LORD pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,
Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
She said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house."
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
"the LORD was very displeased with your fathers.
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."
"For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased.
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