Proverbs 20:21

English Standard Version 2016

An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”

Proverbs 20:20

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.