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5A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Psalms 112:5

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

  • That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

  • I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. …

  • When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

The psalmist begins with a call to us to praise God, but immediately applies himself to praise the people of God; for whatever glory is acknowledged to be on them it comes from God, and must return to him; as he is their praise, so they are his. We have reason to praise the Lord that there are a people in the world who fear him and serve him, and that they are a happy people, both which are owing…

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