Proverbs 1:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

Cross References

Job 31:39

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Psalm 7:16

His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

Proverbs 15:27

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

Proverbs 29:24

A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sunwealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

Habakkuk 2:9

A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

1 Timothy 3:3

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

Joshua 7:25

And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.