OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 3:27

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27

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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Verse 27. Able. Prot. “withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.” Relieve the distressed. Bible.—They have a title to that wealth, since those who possess it are bound to relieve the indigent. Calmet.—Septuagint “refrain not from doing good,” and so forth Bible.

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