Proverbs 27:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

For riches are not forever; does a crown endure to every generation?

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  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
  • Isa 9:7 : 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy: for He will make a speedy end of all those that dwell in the land.
  • 1 Tim 6:17-18 : 17 Charge those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share;
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
  • 2 Sam 7:16 : 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
  • Ps 89:36 : 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

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  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

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  • Jas 1:10-11
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  • Job 36:19
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    19Will he value your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

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    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

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  • Ps 39:6
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    6Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

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