Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
KJV
Anima quæ benedicit impinguabitur, et qui inebriat, ipse quoque inebriabitur.
Vulgate
ψυχὴ εὐλογουμένη πᾶσα ἁπλῆ, ἀνὴρ δὲ θυμώδης οὐκ εὐσχήμων.
LXX
The liberal soul shall be made fat; And he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
ASV
נֶֽפֶשׁ בְּרָכָ֥ה תְדֻשָּׁ֑ן וּ֝/מַרְוֶ֗ה גַּם ה֥וּא יוֹרֶֽא
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בְּרָכָ֖ה
brkh
noun · 68×
גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
י
y
noun · 752×
יְדֻשָּֽׁן
ydshn
verb · 11×
נִי
ny
verb · 86×
נִי
ny
verb · 14×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Nothing is worse than envy and malice; through these death entered into the world. For when the devil saw man honored, he endured not his prosperity, but used every means to destroy him. Wisdom 2:24 And from the same root one may everywhere see this same fruit produced. Thus Abel was slain; thus David, with many other just men, was like to have been so; from this also the Je…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:6 — I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
- 2Cor 8:2 — How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
- 2Cor 9:6 — But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
- 2Cor 9:7 — Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
- Isa 32:8 — But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
- Isa 58:7 — Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own fl
- Isa 58:11 — And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
- Job 29:13 — The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
- Job 31:16 — If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
- Matt 5:7 — Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
- Matt 25:34 — Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
- Prov 13:4 — The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- Prov 22:9 — He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
- Prov 28:25 — He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
- Prov 28:27 — He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.