Proverbs 20:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ An estate quickly acquired in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ An inheritance hastily gotten [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginning, in the end it will not be blessed. [Prov. 28:20; Hab. 2:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Common English Bible

²¹ Inheritance gained quickly at first won’t bless later on.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ When an inheritance is obtained hastily in the beginning, in the end it will be without a blessing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

Proverbs 20:21 Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 20:20

If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will help you.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.

Proverbs 28:20

The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?

Zechariah 5:4

I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.