New Revised Standard Version
A generous person will be enriched, and one who gives water will get water.

Contemporary English Version
Generosity will be rewarded: Give a cup of water, and you will receive a cup of water in return.

New American Bible
Whoever confers benefits will be amply enriched, and whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.

He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.

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Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.

Job 29:13-18 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow. . . .

Job 31:16-20 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: . . .

Isaiah 32:8 But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.

Isaiah 58:7-11 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh. . . .

Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 25:34,35 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . .

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