Proverbs 10:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² Treasures of wrongness are of no value, But righteousness delivers from death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) delivers from death.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.

Common English Bible

² The treasure of the wicked won’t profit them, but righteousness rescues people from death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death.

Proverbs 10:2 Cross References

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 12:28

In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth from vanity diminishes, But he who gathers by hand increases.

Proverbs 21:6

Gaining treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapour, heading for death.

Ezekiel 7:19

‘They throw their silver into the streets, and their gold becomes as filth. Their silver and their gold is unable to deliver them in the day of the wrath of יהוה. They do not satisfy their appetite, nor fill their stomachs, because it has been their stumbling-block of crookedness.

Daniel 4:27

“Therefore, O sovereign, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your crookednesses by showing favour to the poor – your prosperity might be extended.”

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of יהוה. And by the fire of His jealousy all the earth shall be consumed, for He makes a sudden end of all those who dwell in the earth.

Romans 2:5

But according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of Elohim,

Romans 5:21

so that as sin did reign in death, even so favour might reign through righteousness to everlasting life through יהושע  Messiah our Master.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through belief in Messiah, the righteousness which is from Elohim on the basis of belief,