Proverbs 1:19 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain; such [greed for plunder] takes away the lives of its possessors. [Prov. 15:27; I Tim. 6:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ These are the ways of all who seek unjust gain; it costs them their lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Proverbs 1:19 Cross References

Job 31:39

if I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Psalm 7:16

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Proverbs 29:24

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Joshua 7:25

And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

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.