Proverbs 15:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

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  • Exod 23:8 : 8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.
  • 2 Kgs 5:27 : 27 Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
  • Prov 1:19 : 19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
  • Prov 11:29 : 29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment. 4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
  • Prov 20:21 : 21 A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
  • Prov 28:16 : 16 The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.
  • Prov 29:4 : 4 A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.
  • Isa 5:8-9 : 8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land! 9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them. 10 For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
  • Isa 33:15-16 : 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil; 16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
  • Josh 6:18 : 18 And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.
  • Josh 7:11-12 : 11 Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods. 12 For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.
  • Josh 7:24-25 : 24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
  • 1 Sam 8:3-5 : 3 And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging. 4 Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah, 5 And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.
  • Prov 11:19 : 19 So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.
  • Deut 7:26 : 26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

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  • Prov 1:19
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    19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Prov 21:26
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    26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

  • Prov 15:6
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    6 In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

  • Prov 28:16
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    16 The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

  • Prov 11:27-29
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    27 He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.

    28 He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

    29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Exod 23:8
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    8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 28:19-20
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    19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

    20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

  • Prov 28:25
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    25 He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

  • Prov 17:13
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    13 If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

  • Prov 17:19-20
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    19 The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

    20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

  • Prov 11:15
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    15 He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

  • Prov 17:8
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    8 An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

  • Prov 29:24
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    24 A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.

  • Prov 10:2
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    2 Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

  • Prov 21:14
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    14 By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

  • Jer 22:13
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    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

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    4 A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.

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    35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

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    10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

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    13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

  • Ezek 18:13
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    13 And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.

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    27 He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

  • Prov 15:16
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    16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

  • Prov 15:28
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    28 The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

  • Prov 14:17
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    17 He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

  • Prov 21:5-6
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    5 The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.

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  • Prov 15:26
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    26 Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.

  • Jer 5:27
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    27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

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    17 Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7 A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

  • Prov 11:18
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    18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • Ps 15:5
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    5 He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

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    10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

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    6 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

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    23 The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.