Bible Dictionary: Being Stingy

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Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete with it shall be measured to you again.
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2 Corinthians 9:7
Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
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James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraides not; and it shall be given him.
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James 4:3
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.
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Library

On the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments of the Church
... But if God left you free, should you therefore be stingy with Him? ... Then when he saw
that his brother's sacrifice was pleasing to God, being filled with jealousy ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 36 on the third.htm

But There is a Further Fact; Forgotten Also Because we Moderns ...
... a stuffed stocking for being good or stood him in the corner for being naughty ... real
difficulty," they say, "when a boy is bumptious or an aunt is stingy, when a ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 25 but there is.htm

About Generosity
... But instead of being proud, and thinking the other boy cowardly, he went over to
the younger lad and said: "Now ... Don't be stingy with your thoughts about people ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/about generosity.htm

How those who Maintain that a Man Can be Without Sin are Charged ...
... guilt from those idle and random vagaries of our thoughts, but being rendered stupid ...
the brightness of our cheerfulness is clouded over by a stingy delay, nor ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter vii how those who.htm

Following "Whithersoever"
... not hear of ministers' being kept out of the work through lack of support or a lack
of funds to carry on the Lord's work. Think of a stingy "whithersoever"! ...
/.../naylor/heart talks/talk thirty-two following whithersoever.htm

Letter cxv. To the Heretic Simplicia.
... mad for gold, ruthless, grumbling about their dinner, inconstant, stingy, greedy,
insatiable ... The blessed Basil being ill and entering a bath to bathe, Simplicia ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter cxv to the heretic.htm

Rahab's Faith
... them, yet she was so strong that she would run the risk of being put to ... Ah!" said
one who heard it, "the Lord have mercy on your miserable stingy soul, for if ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/rahabs faith.htm

Plus Ultra Vs. Ne Plus Ultra.
... I have spoken of woman being the "last of creation." This expression is generally
used in a ... Those who sow with a stingy hand may expect to reap a scanty harvest ...
/.../iii plus ultra vs ne plus.htm

Whether it is Lawful for Religious to Beg?
... begging out of humility, just as they abase themselves in other ways, as being the
most ... forbid anyone to beg, but it forbids the rich to be so stingy that some ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is lawful for 16.htm

Religion --A Reality
... man, for he is filled with sin and drenched with iniquity, till he loatheth his
own being. ... Why I know a man who was as stingy a soul as could be, once, and now ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/religiona reality.htm