waste
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12Then, when they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments that are left over, lest they be lost.”
49Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: arrogance, indulgence in bread and abundance, and the idleness of her and her daughters; and they did not reach out their hand to the needy and the poor.
22And when you will have harvested the grain fields of your land, you shall not cut it down all the way to the ground; neither shall you gather the remnants of the ears of grain, but you shall leave these for paupers and strangers. I am the Lord your God.
9Whoever is dissolute and slack in his work is the brother of him who wastes his own works.
27The dishonest will not discover gain. But the substance of a man will be like precious gold.
23Much nourishment is in the fallow land of the fathers. But for others, it is gathered without judgment.
19When you have reaped the grain in your field, and, having forgotten, you leave behind a sheaf, you shall not return to take it away. Instead, you shall permit the new arrival, and the orphan, and the widow to take it away, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.
3And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head. 4But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: “What is the reason for this waste of the ointment? 5For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor.” And they murmured against her.
16Behold, I created the smith who fans the coals of the fire and produces an object by his work, and I have created the slayer who destroys.
28And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
3And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head. 4But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: “What is the reason for this waste of the ointment? 5For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor.” And they murmured against her. 6But Jesus said: “Permit her. What is the reason that you trouble her? She has done a good deed for me.
2I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law. 3For I, too, was the son of my father, tender and an only son in the sight of my mother.
33Do not pollute the land of your habitation, so as to stain it with the blood of the innocent; neither is it able to be expiated in any way other than by the blood of him who has shed the blood of another.
9And you shall know that the Lord your God himself is a strong and faithful God, preserving his covenant and his mercy for those who love him and those who keep his precepts for a thousand generations,