Proverbs 21:6

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 20:21

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

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.

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.

Proverbs 20:14

“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?