Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Getting
Bible References
Getting
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase it.
Proverbs 20:14
Bad! bad! saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.
Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs it hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.
Titus 1:11
who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.
2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
Seek
Proverbs 8:36
but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?