Proverbs 1:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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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 the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Psalm 7:16

His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: But he that hateth gifts shall live.

Proverbs 29:24

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

1 Timothy 3:3

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

Joshua 7:21

when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, beheld, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Joshua 7:25

And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

2 Peter 2:3

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.