Proverbs 20:21

God's Word

An inheritance quickly obtained in the beginning will never be blessed in the end.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the wealth of sinners is stored away for a righteous person.

Proverbs 20:20

The lamp of the person who curses his father and mother will be snuffed out in total darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I’ll get even with you!” Wait for the Lord, and he will save you.

Proverbs 21:6

Those who gather wealth by lying are wasting time. They are looking for death.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out getting rich. Be smart enough to stop.

Proverbs 28:20

A trustworthy person has many blessings, but anyone in a hurry to get rich will not escape punishment.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy person is in a hurry to get rich, not realizing that poverty is about to overtake him.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever becomes wealthy through ⌞unfair⌟ loans and interest collects them for the one who is kind to the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Won’t all of them ridicule him, directing clever sayings and riddles at him, like: “ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?’

Zechariah 5:4

I will send out a curse, declares the Lord of Armies, and it will enter the houses of thieves and the houses of those who take oaths in my name. It will stay in their houses and destroy the timber and stone.”

Malachi 2:2

If you won’t listen and if you won’t consider giving honor to my name,” says the Lord of Armies, “then I’ll send a curse on you, and I’ll curse the blessings you give. Yes, I’ve already cursed them because you don’t carefully consider this.

1 Timothy 6:9

But people who want to get rich keep falling into temptation. They are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires which drown them in destruction and ruin.