Proverbs 21:6
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
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- Prov 13:11 : 11 Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.
- Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance gained easily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
- Prov 8:36 : 36 But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."
- Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
- Prov 20:14 : 14 “It’s worthless! It’s worthless!” says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.
- Prov 22:8 : 8 The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
- Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,
- Jer 17:11 : 11 The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
- Ezek 18:31 : 31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?
- 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
- Titus 1:11 : 11 who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.
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