Proverbs 20:21
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
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- Prov 13:22 : 22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
- Prov 23:4 : 4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
- Prov 28:22 : 22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
- Prov 28:8 : 8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
- Prov 28:20 : 20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
- Hab 2:6 : 6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
- Zech 5:4 : 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.
- Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
- 1 Tim 6:9 : 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.
- Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; 17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.
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- Prov 28:20-223 verses79%
20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
21 It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.
22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
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20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
- Prov 13:21-233 verses75%
21 Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.
22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
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22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.
- Prov 21:5-73 verses74%
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.
6 He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
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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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22 Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.
- Eccl 5:13-142 verses74%
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.
14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
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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.
- Job 20:28-292 verses73%
28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
29 This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
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20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
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18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
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22 The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
- Prov 19:14-152 verses72%
14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
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29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.
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21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
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20 There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.
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21 If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.
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11 Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
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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.
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11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
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18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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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.
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16 Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife:
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16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
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21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
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3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
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19 You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
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26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
- Prov 5:10-112 verses70%
10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
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6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.
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14 A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
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13 If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.
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8 By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
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20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
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8 Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?
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2 Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
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17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
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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.
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29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.