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
The treasures of lawlessness, do not profit, but, righteousness, delivereth from death.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by greed, diminisheth, but, he that gathereth by little, increaseth.
Proverbs 20:14
Bad! bad! saith the buyer, but, going his way, then, he boasteth.
Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
Proverbs 30:8
Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:
Jeremiah 17:11
As a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, So is he that maketh riches but not with justice, - In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And in his latter end, prove to have been base.
1 Timothy 6:9
But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction, -
Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must needs be stopped, men who are upsetting whole houses, teaching the things which ought not to be taught - for the sake of base gain.
2 Peter 2:3
And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.
Seek
Proverbs 8:36
But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast off from you all your transgressions which ye have committed against me, And make you a new heart; And a new spirit,- For why should ye die, O house of Israel?