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 gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 28:8
Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
Job 15:28
and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
Job 20:15
He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay,
Ecclesiastes 5:14
and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own-- for how long?-- and loads himself with pledges!"
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 27:23
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,
Psalm 128:2
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.