Proverbs 21:6

World English Bible (2000)

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 13:11 : 11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
  • Prov 8:36 : 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • Prov 20:14 : 14 "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
  • Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 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. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

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