Bible verses about "investment" | YLT

¹³ but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind, ¹⁴ and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

¹ Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: ² For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, ³ For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, ⁴ For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion. ⁵ (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) ⁶ For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
⁷ Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised! ⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, ⁹ For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. ¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, <sup>12</sup> We swallow them as Sheol—alive, And whole—as those going down to the pit, <sup>13</sup> Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, <sup>14</sup> Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is—to all of us.' <sup>15</sup> My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, <sup>16</sup> For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. <sup>17</sup> Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. <sup>18</sup> And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. <sup>19</sup> So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
<sup>20</sup> Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, <sup>21</sup> At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: <sup>22</sup> `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. ²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, ²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. ²⁶ I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, ²⁷ When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. ²⁸ Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. ²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. ³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, ³¹ And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. ³² For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. ³³ And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'

¹⁵ be diligent to present thyself approved to God—a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

²³ `And when ye come in unto the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then ye have reckoned as uncircumcised its fruit, three years it is to you uncircumcised, it is not eaten, ²⁴ and in the fourth year all its fruit is holy—praises for Jehovah. ²⁵ And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I am Jehovah your God.

⁸ the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

¹⁷ and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him?

¹⁵ Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, ¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world, ¹⁷ and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain—to the age.

⁴ only when there is no needy one with thee, for Jehovah doth greatly bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance to possess it.

³⁸ `Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

³⁵ all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

²⁰ but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,

³³ sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy; ³⁴ for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.

⁷ The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.

¹ Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it. ² Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth. ³ If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty themselves; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is. ⁴ Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not. ⁵ As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, How—bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole. ⁶ In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.