Ecclesiastes 2:26
"For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
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- Proverbs 13:22
"A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just."
Read in chapter → - Job 27:16
"Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 28:8
"He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 3:10
"Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings."
Read in chapter → - John 16:24
"Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full."
Read in chapter → - Colossians 3:16
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 31:20
"And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 3:13
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding."
Read in chapter → - Colossians 1:9
"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;"
Read in chapter → - Luke 1:6
"And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless."
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