Proverbs 3:27
25 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
- KJV
- Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
- WEB
- Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
- ASV
- Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
- DARBY
- Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
- BLB
- Do not withhold good from its owners, with it being in the power of your hand to act.
- ÅB
- Nekt ikke de trengende din hjelp, når det står i din makt å gi den!
- OTB
- Hold ikke tilbake det gode fra dem som fortjener det, når det er i din makt å hjelpe.
- B1930
- Nekt ikke de trengende din hjelp, når det står i din makt å gi den!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 6:10
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
Read in contextJames 2:15–16
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
Read in contextRomans 13:7
Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Read in contextJames 5:4
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Read in contextGenesis 31:29
I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Read in contextMicah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
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