22The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
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And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. …
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. …
But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22)Note, 2c6c 1. The honour of doing good is what we may laudably be ambitious of. It cannot but be the desire of man , if he have any spark of virtue in him, to be kind; one would not covet an estate for any thing so much as thereby to be put into a capacity of relieving the poor and obliging our friends. 2. It is far better to have a heart to do good and want ability for it than have ability for it…
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