Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Bible References

Gotten

Proverbs 23:4
Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man shall overflow with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
1 Timothy 6:9
But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.