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
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Proverbs 20:21
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Job 15:28
And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
Job 20:15
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
Job 27:16
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
Ecclesiastes 5:14
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
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Proverbs 13:22
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
Proverbs 20:21
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
Proverbs 27:23
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;