Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Wealth
Bible References
Wealth
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Proverbs 28:8
He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Job 15:28
and he dwelt in desolate cities and in houses which no one inhabited, which were in heaps.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares raiment as the clay,
Ecclesiastes 5:14
which are lost by evil pursuits and to the sons which he has begotten; there is nothing left in his hand.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say, Woe to him that multiplied that which was not his! And for how long would he pile thick clay upon himself?
James 5:1
Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Proverbs 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds.
Psalm 128:2
When thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.