New Revised Standard Version
But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.

Contemporary English Version
But helpful people can always be trusted to make helpful plans.

New American Bible
But the noble plan noble deeds, and in noble deeds they persist.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.

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

the liberal

2 Samuel 9:1 And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of Saul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan's sake?

Job 31:16-21 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: . . .

Psalm 112:9 He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.

Proverbs 11:24 The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.

Luke 6:33-35 And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also do this. . . .

Acts 9:39 And Peter rising up went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him, weeping and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them.

Acts 11:29,30 And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:2 That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.

2 Corinthians 9:6-11 Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings. . . .

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