Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
Withhold not alms from the poor, to whom they are due by God's own appointment; the rich man is not the owner of his goods but God's steward to distribute them. Money kept from the needy is unrighteous mammon. When you have ability and opportunity, do good at once and without delay.
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Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it]. (m) Not only from them to whom the possession belongs but also you shall not keep it from them who have need of the use of it.
Refuse nothing good to him who deserves it when you have the power to do it. The text forbids withholding what is legally or morally due; the phrase 'within your power' means you possess both the means and the ability. To delay with empty promises is itself a refusal.
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Commenting on Proverbs 3:27-28