5967 thrift
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Saving by the careful use of resources. In general this is encouraged in Scripture, though the dangers of meanness, materialism and anxiety are recognised.

Encouragements to thrift

To provide for the future

Proverbs 21:20 See also Proverbs 6:6-8; Proverbs 10:5; Proverbs 12:27; Proverbs 27:23-27; Proverbs 30:25

To provide for children

Psalm 17:14; Proverbs 13:22; 2 Corinthians 12:14

To provide for others

Deuteronomy 14:28-29; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Ephesians 4:28

Examples of thrift

Noah

Genesis 6:21

Joseph

Genesis 41:48 See also Genesis 41:28-36,53

Solomon

1 Kings 9:17-19 pp 2 Chronicles 8:4-6

Jehoshaphat

2 Chronicles 17:12

Hezekiah

2 Chronicles 32:27-29

The good wife

Proverbs 31:13-16

Jesus Christ

John 6:12-13

The dangers of thrift

Meanness

John 12:4-6 pp Matthew 26:8-9 pp Mark 14:4-5 See also Proverbs 3:27-28; Proverbs 11:24,26; Proverbs 23:6-8; Proverbs 28:22; Ecclesiastes 5:13; 2 Corinthians 9:6

Materialism

Luke 12:15 See also Ecclesiastes 4:8; Micah 6:14; Luke 12:16-21

Anxiety

Luke 12:22-31 pp Matthew 6:25-34

Lack of thrift

Luke 15:13 See also Proverbs 21:17,20; Proverbs 23:20-21; Proverbs 29:3; Luke 16:1

Spiritual thrift

Matthew 6:19-21; Ephesians 5:15-16 See also Proverbs 10:14; 1 Timothy 6:19

The wicked store up judgment

Romans 2:5-6 See also Romans 2:7-10; Revelation 18:6-7

See also

5475  property
5556  stewardship
5680  family
5802  care
5907  miserliness
5922  prudence
5979  waste
8434  giving
8778  materialism
8808  riches
8849  worry
9130  future, the



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