Proverbs 21:6

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:11

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

Proverbs 20:14

It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Proverbs 22:8

He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food suitable for me:

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul: all those who hate me love death.

Jeremiah 17:11

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.

Ezekiel 18:31

Put away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?

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 2:3

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.