Proverbs 1:19

English Standard Version 2016

Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:27

Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Habakkuk 2:9

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;

Joshua 7:21

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Joshua 7:25

And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

Psalm 7:16

His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.

Proverbs 29:24

The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.