Proverbs 21:6
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
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- Prov 13:11 : 11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
- Prov 20:21 : 21 A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
- Prov 8:36 : 36 But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
- Prov 10:2 : 2 Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
- Prov 20:14 : 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.
- Prov 22:8 : 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.
- Prov 30:8 : 8 Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
- 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.
- Ezek 18:31 : 31 Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?
- 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 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. 10 For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
- Titus 1:11 : 11 By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
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