Proverbs 10:2 - American Standard Version (1901)

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) delivers from death.

Common English Bible

² The treasure of the wicked won’t profit them, but righteousness rescues people from death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.

English Standard Version 2016

² Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 10:2 Cross References

Proverbs 11:4

Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 12:28

In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.

Romans 2:5

but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Romans 5:21

that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith: