Proverbs 1:19

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Summary

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Every

Taketh

Job 31:39

Ecclesiastes 5:13

General references

Proverbs 1:13

Bible References

Every

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.

Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceitful food.

And Joab said to the man who told him, And, behold, you saw him, and why did you not strike him there to the ground? And I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a girdle.

And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hand that which he brought. But, as Jehovah lives, I will run after him and take something from him.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!

saying, Give me this power also, that on whomever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

Taketh

if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire,

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.

General references

we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder;