Bible verse
Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.
Proverbs 3:28 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 3.
24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
25 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
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.
31 Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
32 for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.
KJV
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
ASV
Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give; When thou hast it by thee.
ERV
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
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