Proverbs 20:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.

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  • Prov 13:22 : 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.
  • Prov 23:4 : 4 Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his! How long? And to him who loads himself with thick clay!
  • Zech 5:4 : 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already because you do not take it to heart.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares clothing as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall wear it, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 28:20-22
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    79%

    20 A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.

    21 To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

    22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Prov 20:20
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    20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Prov 13:21-23
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    75%

    21 Evil pursues sinners, but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

    22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

    23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Ps 37:22
    75%

    22 For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Prov 21:5-7
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    5 The thoughts of the diligent lead only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to poverty.

    6 The accumulation of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vanity to those who seek death.

    7 The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Prov 13:11
    74%

    11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

  • Prov 20:22
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    22 Do not say, I will recompense evil; wait on the LORD, and He shall save you.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    74%

    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

    14 But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • Jer 17:11
    73%

    11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • Job 20:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of God's wrath.

    29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage assigned to him by God.

  • Prov 19:20
    72%

    20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.

  • Job 20:18
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    18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to his wealth shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

  • Prov 10:22
    72%

    22 The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

  • Prov 19:14-15
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    14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

    15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 11:29
    72%

    29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Prov 17:21
    72%

    21 He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 21:20
    72%

    20 There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends it up.

  • Prov 29:21
    71%

    21 He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

  • Eccl 7:11
    71%

    11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

  • Prov 15:6
    71%

    6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the income of the wicked is trouble.

  • Prov 30:11
    71%

    11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Prov 23:18
    71%

    18 For surely there is an end, and your expectation shall not be cut off.

  • Prov 22:16
    71%

    16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Deut 21:16
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    16 Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn:

  • Deut 27:16
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    16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

  • Job 5:3
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    3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

  • Job 21:19
    70%

    19 God lays up iniquity for his children; He rewards him, and he shall know it.

  • Prov 21:26
    70%

    26 He covets greedily all day long, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

  • Prov 5:10-11
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    10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

    11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • Prov 22:6
    70%

    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 20:14
    70%

    14 It is worthless, it is worthless, says the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

  • Prov 17:13
    70%

    13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8 He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.

  • Prov 15:20
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    20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

  • Prov 25:8
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    8 Do not go forth hastily to contend, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

  • Prov 10:2
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    2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Exod 21:17
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    17 And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 1:19
    70%

    19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Job 15:29
    70%

    29 He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.