Proverbs 21:6
"The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death."
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- Proverbs 13:11
"Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 10:2
"Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 17:11
"As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:21
"An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 8:36
"But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
Read in chapter → - 1 Timothy 6:9
"But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 22:8
"He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail."
Read in chapter → - 2 Peter 2:3
"And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:14
"It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 30:8
"Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:"
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