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Psalms 112:5
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Psalms 112:5
5A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
5†A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.
- Heb. iudgement.
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Psalms 112:5
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Shows, reveals, declares, or makes known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Kind regard, approval, goodwill, or a gracious disposition shown toward another.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To grant money, goods, or another thing for temporary use, ordinarily to be returned or repaid; sometimes without expecting repayment.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A person who leads or directs another in his way or course; a conductor. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
discretion
Wise choice of one from another.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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Open the full verse study21The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
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Open the full verse study15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
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Open the full verse study20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
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Open the full verse study7¶ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
8But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
10Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
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Open the full verse study12When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
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Open the full verse study9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
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Open the full verse study30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
32Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study25I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
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Open the full verse study50¶ And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counseller; and he was a good man, and a just:
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Open the full verse study35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
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Open the full verse study11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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Open the full verse study7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
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Open the full verse study2A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
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Open the full verse study18A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
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Open the full verse study26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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Open the full verse study24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
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Open the full verse study16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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Open the full verse study9He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
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Open the full verse study27Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
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Open the full verse study23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
24For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
25The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
27And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
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