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her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your
threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto
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the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in
your land safely. And I will give peace in the land, ... and none shall
make you afraid.”
Leviticus 26:3-6
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“Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead
for the widow.” “Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will
deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep
him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and Thou wilt not
deliver him unto the will of his enemies.” “He that hath pity upon the
poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay
him again.”
Isaiah 1:17
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Psalm 41:1, 2
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Proverbs 19:17
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He who makes this investment lays up double treasure. Besides
that which, however wisely improved, he must leave at last, he is
amassing wealth for eternity,—that treasure of character which is the
most valuable possession of earth or heaven.
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“The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
shall be forever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the
days of famine they shall be satisfied.”
Psalm 37:18, 19
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“He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
speaketh the truth in his heart.... He that sweareth to his own hurt, and
changeth not;” “he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh
his hands from holding of bribes, ... and shutteth his eyes from seeing
evil; he shall dwell on high: ... bread shall be given him; his waters
shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty: they shall
behold the land that is very far off.”
Psalm 15:2-4
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Isaiah 33:15-17
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God has given in His word a picture of a prosperous man—one
whose life was in the truest sense a success, a man whom both heaven
and earth delighted to honor. Of his experiences Job himself says: