Proverbs 1:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

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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 its yield without payment and caused the death of its owners,

Psalm 7:16

Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice.

Proverbs 15:27

Those greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live.

Proverbs 29:24

To be a partner of a thief is to hate one’s own life; one hears the victim’s curse but discloses nothing.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous ill that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owners to their hurt,

Habakkuk 2:9

“Alas for you who get evil gain for your house, setting your nest on high to be safe from the reach of harm!”

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

Joshua 7:21

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. They now lie hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Joshua 7:25

Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord is bringing trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him to death; they burned them with fire, cast stones on them,

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.