 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more •than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.  Letters on Missions - Side 173af William Swan - 1830 - 280 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Smith - 1852 - 392 sider
...needs, will lose ; while he that gives, will secure what he has and increase it. As it is written, " There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there...withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Is the silver and gold the Lord's : Then let us be willing to part with it when God call for it. Does... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1852 - 588 sider
...together, and running over." Indeed this is the very way to increase ; for it is said (Proverbs xi. 24), "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth, and...withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty ;" and again (Isaiah xxxii. 8), " The liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things shall... | |
 | Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (hon.) - 1852 - 280 sider
...according to his future expectations, but not such as the more enlarged demands of a man would require. " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and...withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Fully aware of this, a spirit of true generosity had been cultivated, while the reckless squandering... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 456 sider
...excesses which prevail where the Gospel does not restrain men, would grind you to the dust. " There is, that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty ;" and in no case is this proverb more strikingly verified than in those parsimonious calculations... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 462 sider
...excesses which prevail where the Gospel does not restrain men, would grind you to the dust. " There is, that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty ;" and in no case is this proverb more strikingly verified than in those parsimonious calculations... | |
 | James Harington Evans - 1852 - 708 sider
...for itself, longs, desires, prays, and yet receives little. There is too much self in this: "There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Ah, if the saints of God were more disposed to leave that which pampereth the flesh, strengthencth... | |
 | 1864 - 604 sider
...thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine." (Prov. iii. 9, 10). "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and...withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made f;it, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself." (Prov. xi.... | |
 | 1853 - 616 sider
...his gifts to the Lord's treasury, entered into speculations, lost all, and was reduced to poverty. " There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there...withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." THE TEX COMMANDMENTS. IT is the remark of au old Puritan, that every Christian has ten children, all... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1853 - 178 sider
...so much." "Ay," replied the other, "but I cannot afford to give less; for ' there is that scattercth and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.'" Dear, little readers, learn this verse off, and take it for your guide through life. March 29th, 1853.... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1853 - 298 sider
...rich ingoodworks" like the saying of Solomon, " There is that scattereth and yet increaseth ; there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Good works are the only things we read of as following us to heaven. The wealthiest man will not take... | |
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