Proverbs 21:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Securing treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro; those who seek them seek death.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

Common English Bible

⁶ Those who gain treasure with lies are like a drifting fog, leading to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

Proverbs 21:6 Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

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

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but those who gather little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 20:14

“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, then goes away and boasts.

Proverbs 20:21

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

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need,

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.

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.