Proverbs 27:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure to every generation?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ For riches are not forever; does a crown endure to all generations?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ For riches are not for ever; And doth the crown endure unto all generations?

Common English Bible

²⁴ for no treasure lasts forever, nor a crown generation after generation.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ for you will not always hold this power. But a crown shall be awarded from generation to generation.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.

Proverbs 27:24 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:16

Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me; your throne shall be established forever.”

Job 19:9

He has stripped my glory from me and taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 89:36

His line shall continue forever, and his throne endure before me like the sun.

Psalm 89:39

You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.

Proverbs 23:4

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

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

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

Isaiah 9:7

Great will be his authority, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 21:26

thus says the Lord God: Remove the turban, take off the crown; things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low; humble that which is high.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed, for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

James 1:10

and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.

1 Samuel 13:14

but now your kingdom will not continue; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has appointed him to be ruler over his people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”