Proverbs 20:21

American King James Version (1999)

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Proverbs 23:4

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 28:22

He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come on him.

Proverbs 28:8

He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that lades himself with thick clay!

Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, said the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the middle of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, said the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings: yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.