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Proverbs 3:28
Proverbs 3:28 is verse 28 of Proverbs chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
King James Version
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
World English Bible
Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.
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Proverbs 3:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
27 Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.
30 Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Leviticus 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
Deuteronomy 24:12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
Deuteronomy 24:13be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 24:14Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
Deuteronomy 24:15You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 11:6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
2 Corinthians 8:11Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.
2 Corinthians 9:3But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.
1 Timothy 6:18Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,