Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10:2 - Revised Standard Version CI Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) delivers from death. American Standard Version (1901) Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death. Common English Bible The treasure of the wicked won’t profit them, but righteousness rescues people from death. Catholic Public Domain Version Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death. |
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but he who gathers little by little will increase it.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing; their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you; break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your tranquillity.”
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith;