Verse 6

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 13:11 : 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.
  • Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.
  • Prov 8:36 : 36 But whoever 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 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
  • Prov 20:14 : 14 It is worthless, it is worthless, says the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.
  • Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
  • Jer 17:11 : 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.
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 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. 10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil: which while some coveted after, they have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.