Proverbs 19:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. ”

Proverbs 19:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Note the original greatness of the thought. We give to the poor. Have we lost our gift? No, what we gave, we have lent to One who will repay with usury. Compare the yet nobler truth of our Lord’s t...
Proverbs 19:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. Proverbs 1...
Proverbs 19:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. Lendeth unto the Lord - O what a word is this! God makes himself debtor for every thing that...
Proverbs 19:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord - making the Lord his debtor;...
Proverbs 19:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Fool ] read, 'rich' ( Proverbs 28:6 ).
Proverbs 19:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lendeth unto the Lord. — Who “for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich” ( 2 Corinthians 8:9 ), and Who regards all done to one of his poor brethren as done unto Himself...
Proverbs 19:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb...
Proverbs 19:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:7 . This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been l...
Proverbs 19:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Slothfulness...
Proverbs 19:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He that hath pity unto the poor lendeth unto the Lord ,.... A man, whose heart is full of compassion to the poor, and whose hands distribute to their necessities, from a true principle of love and c...
Proverbs 19:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. Ver. 17. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth, &c. ] This is a second fruit of s...
Proverbs 19:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He that hath pity on the poor And relieves their necessities; lendeth unto the Lord Doth not empoverish, but enrich himself: for the Lord takes what is done to them as done to himself, because it...
Proverbs 19:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the L ORD ; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. Here is, I. The duty of charity described. It includes two things:-- 1...
Proverbs 19:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lendeth unto the Lord; who takes what is done to them as done to himself, because it is done to them whom God, as to this particular, hath put in his own stead, to be his receivers, and whom God ha...
Proverbs 19:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 19:17 THE BEST INVESTMENT I. A God-like disposition . To “pity the poor and to show that we do so by ministering to their necessities (for this is implied in the pr...
Proverbs 19:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 19:1 . Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of...
Proverbs 19:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. Christian pity for the Christian poor I. The great stress which the Scriptures lay upon pity for the poor. That man must be a cursory read...
Proverbs 19:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walkth in his integrity. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7 , Proverbs 19:22 , rash, which signifies "poor" in oppositi...
Proverbs 19:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 17. He that hath pity upon the poor, showing him charity in the right spirit, lendeth unto the Lord, money given to the poor is deposited in the savings-bank of Jehovah; and that which he hat...
Proverbs 19:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 ; 2 Samuel 12:6 ; Deuteronomy 15:7-14 ; Ecclesiastes 11:1 ; Hebrews 6:10 ; Isaiah 58:7-11 ; Matthew 10:41 ; Matthew 10:42 ; Matthew 25:40 ; Philippians 4:17 ; Proverbs...

Proverbs 19:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 19:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 19:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 19:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 19:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 19:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 19:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 19:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 19:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 19:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 19:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 19:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge