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 (the morally wrong) profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but in the end it will not be blessed.
Proverbs 28:8
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
Job 15:28
He will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
Job 20:15
He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up.
Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
Ecclesiastes 5:14
When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he fathered a son, then there was no support for him.
Jeremiah 17:11
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Habakkuk 2:6
Will they all taunt him by directing clever sayings and riddles at him? They will say: How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own (by extortion) and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but in the end it will not be blessed.
Proverbs 27:23
Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds.
Psalm 128:2
You will certainly eat what your own hands have provided. Blessings to you! May things go well for you!