Proverbs 10:2

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Summary

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Treasures

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Treasures

Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath,
but righteousness rescues from death.

They trust in their wealth
and boast of their abundant riches.

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.

Their silver and their gold
will not be able to rescue them
on the day of the Lord’s wrath.
The whole earth will be consumed
by the fire of His jealousy.
For He will make a complete,
yes, a horrifying end
of all the inhabitants of the earth.

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side.

The rich man also died and was buried.

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

But

There is life in the path of righteousness,
but another path leads to death.

Therefore, may my advice seem good to you my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right, and from your injustices by showing mercy to the needy. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith.