Bible Verses About Frugality

So he went and did according vnto the word of the Lord: for he went, and remained by the riuer Cherith that is ouer against Iorden.

And the rauens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the euening, and he dranke of the riuer.

So he arose, and went to Zarephath: and when he came to the gate of the citie, beholde, the widowe was there gathering stickes: and he called her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a litle water in a vessel, that I may drinke.

And as she was going to fet it, he called to her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsell of bread in thine hand.

And shee sayde, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but euen an handfull of meale in a barrel, and a litle oyle in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering a fewe stickes for to go in, and dresse it for me and my sonne, that we may eate it, and dye.

And Eliiah said vnto her, Feare not, come, do as thou hast sayd, but make me thereof a litle cake first of all, and bring it vnto mee, and afterward make for thee, and thy sonne.

Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.

Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?

For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.