Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Bible References

Wealth

Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 28:8
He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Job 15:28
And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will 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
And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Jeremiah 17:11
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.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!
James 5:1
Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

He

Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
Psalm 128:2
For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.