Proverbs 10:2 - Holman Christian Standard Bible

² Ill-gotten gains do not profit anyone, but righteousness rescues 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth 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.

Proverbs 10:2 Cross References

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath, but righteousness rescues from death.

Proverbs 12:28

There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth obtained by fraud will dwindle, but whoever earns it through labor will multiply it.

Proverbs 21:6

Making a fortune through a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

Ezekiel 7:19

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem like something filthy. Their silver and gold will be unable to save them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. They will not satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs, for these were the stumbling blocks that brought about their iniquity.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, may my advice seem good to you my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right, and from your injustices by showing mercy to the needy. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy. For He will make a complete, yes, a horrifying end of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Romans 2:5

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ — the righteousness from God based on faith.