Proverbs 20:21

World English Bible (2000)

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 13:22 : 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
  • Prov 23:4 : 4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
  • Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Won't 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, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
  • Zech 5:4 : 4 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay; 17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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    20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

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    21 He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

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

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