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 profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Job 15:28
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one 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 heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Ecclesiastes 5:14
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered 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
Won't 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, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 27:23
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
Psalm 128:2
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.