Proverbs 21:6

A Conservative Version

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

2 Peter 2:3

And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

Proverbs 20:14

It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

Titus 1:11

who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?