Proverbs 21:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Cheating to get rich is a foolish dream and no less than suicide.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

What you gain by doing evil won't help you at all, but being good can save you from death.

Proverbs 13:11

Money wrongly got will disappear bit by bit; money earned little by little will grow and grow.

Proverbs 20:14

Everyone likes to boast about getting a bargain.

Proverbs 20:21

Getting rich quick may turn out to be a curse.

Proverbs 22:8

Troublemakers get in trouble, and their terrible anger will get them nowhere.

Proverbs 30:8

make me absolutely honest and don't let me be too poor or too rich. Give me just what I need.

Proverbs 8:36

But if you don't find me, you hurt only yourself, and if you hate me, you are in love with death.

Jeremiah 17:11

You cheated others, but everything you gained will fly away, like birds hatched from stolen eggs. Then you will discover what fools you are.

Ezekiel 18:31

Give up your evil ways and start thinking pure thoughts. And be faithful to me! Do you really want to be put to death for your sins?

Titus 1:11

But you must make them be quiet. They are after money, and they upset whole families by teaching what they should not.

2 Peter 2:3

They will be greedy and cheat you with smooth talk. But long ago God decided to punish them, and God doesn't sleep.