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Integrity Is Better Than Crooked Wealth
Poverty with integrity is better than dishonest foolishness, yet the sayings also acknowledge how wealth attracts relationships and poverty can isolate. False witness remains accountable before God, exposing how easily social advantage and truth can pull in opposite directions.
Proverbs says poor integrity is better than crooked wealth while also observing how wealth attracts social favor; James condemns partiality that honors the rich and humiliates the poor.
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