Proverbs 28:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Don't be selfish and eager to get rich— you will end up worse off than you can imagine.

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

When they were outside, one of the angels said, “Run for your lives! Don't even look back. And don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, where you will be safe.”

Proverbs 21:5

If you plan and work hard, you will have plenty; if you get in a hurry, you will end up poor.

Proverbs 22:16

Cheat the poor to make profit or give gifts to the rich— either way you lose.

Proverbs 23:6

Don't accept an invitation to eat a selfish person's food, no matter how good it is.

Proverbs 28:20

God blesses his loyal people, but punishes all who want to get rich quick.

Matthew 20:15

Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Why should you be jealous, if I want to be generous?”

Mark 7:22

unfaithfulness in marriage, greed, meanness, deceit, indecency, envy, insults, pride, and foolishness.

1 Timothy 6:9

People who want to be rich fall into all sorts of temptations and traps. They are caught by foolish and harmful desires that drag them down and destroy them.