25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
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Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. …
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? …
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: …
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25)So backward we are to works of charity, and so ready to think that giving undoes us, that we need to have it very much pressed upon us how much it is for our own advantage to do good to others, as before, Prov. 11:17. 1. We shall have the comfort of it in our own bosoms: The liberal soul , the soul of blessing, that prays for the afflicted and provides for them, that scatters blessings with gracio…
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