Jeremiah 17:11

Lighthouse Bible 2006

As the partridge sits on eggs, and does not hatch them; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

Cross References

Job 20:21

None of his food shall be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

Psalm 49:13

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve of their sayings. Selah.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house; but he who hates bribes shall live.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.

Proverbs 23:5

Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 28:16

The prince that lacks understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 28:22

He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

Proverbs 28:8

He that by extortion and unjust gain increases his wealth, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; who makes use of his neighbor’s service without wages, and does not give him anything for his work;

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, and to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

Amos 3:10

For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Micah 2:9

The women of my people have you thrown out from their pleasant houses; from their children have you taken away my glory for ever.

Micah 7:3

So that they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he speaks his mischievous desire: so they weave it together.

Zephaniah 1:9

In the same day also will I punish all those who leap on the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor permit those who are entering to go in.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

Titus 1:11

Whose mouths must be stopped, who corrupt whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for unjust gain’s sake.

2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: having a heart they have occupied with covetous practices; cursed children:

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with deceitful words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now for a long time has not delayed, and their damnation does not slumber.