Proverbs 13:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ One man considers himself rich, yet has nothing [to keep permanently]; another man considers himself poor, yet has great [and indestructible] riches. [Prov. 12:9; Luke 12:20, 21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

Common English Bible

⁷ Some pretend to be rich but have nothing, while others pretend to be poor, but have great riches.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ One is like the rich, though he has nothing. And another is like the poor, though he has many riches.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing: and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Proverbs 13:7 Cross References

Proverbs 11:24

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

Proverbs 12:9

Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but he who gathers little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 13:8

The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but a poor man has no means of redemption.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Luke 12:21

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.

Revelation 2:9

“ ‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.