Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 21:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Securing treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro; those who seek them seek death. American Standard Version (1901) The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death. Common English Bible Those who gain treasure with lies are like a drifting fog, leading to death. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death. |
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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.