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 do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance acquired [hastily] {at the beginning} will not be blessed at its end.
Proverbs 28:8
He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.
Job 15:28
{he will dwell} [in] desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.
Job 20:15
He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.
Job 27:16
If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,
Ecclesiastes 5:14
That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}.
Jeremiah 17:11
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?
James 5:1
Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!
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Proverbs 13:22
He who is good will leave an inheritance to {his grandchildren}, and stored up for the righteous [is] the wealth of a sinner.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance acquired [hastily] {at the beginning} will not be blessed at its end.
Proverbs 27:23
You will surely know the {condition} of your flock; your heart attends to the herds.
Psalm 128:2
You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you [will be] happy and [it will be] well with you.