Topic
Parsimony (Stinginess)
11 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Haggai 1:2Nave Of the Jews — Toward the temple
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
- Haggai 1:4Nave Of the Jews — Toward the temple
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
- Haggai 1:6Nave Of the Jews — Toward the temple
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
- Haggai 1:9Nave Of the Jews — Toward the temple
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
- Haggai 1:9–11Nave Punishment of
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew,…
- Malachi 3:8Nave Of the Jews — Toward God
¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
- Malachi 3:9Nave Of the Jews — Toward God
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
- Matthew 26:8Nave Of the disciples, when the ointment was poured upon Jesus
But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
- Matthew 26:9Nave Of the disciples, when the ointment was poured upon Jesus
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
- John 12:4Nave Of the disciples, when the ointment was poured upon Jesus
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
- John 12:5Nave Of the disciples, when the ointment was poured upon Jesus
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
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Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.