Proverbs 23:4
Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 3:5 : 5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.
- 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.
- Heb 13:5 : 5 Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.
- Prov 26:12 : 12 Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
- Isa 5:21 : 21 Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
- John 6:27 : 27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
- Rom 12:16 : 16 Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.
- 1 Tim 6:8-9 : 8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough. 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.
- Rom 11:25 : 25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
- Matt 6:19 : 19 Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
- Prov 3:7 : 7 Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
- Prov 15:27 : 27 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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5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
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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.
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10 Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
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23 This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
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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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10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
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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.
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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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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.
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4 By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:
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23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
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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.
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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.
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6 One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
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22 The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
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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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11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
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17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
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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:
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17 Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
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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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9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
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7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.
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5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.
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16 Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;
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10 Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.
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15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.