Proverbs 1:19

Modern English Version

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.

Cross References

Job 31:39

if I have eaten its fruit without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life;

Psalm 7:16

His mischief will return on his own head; his violence will descend on the crown of his own head.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom cries out in the street, she raises her voice in the markets.

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy of unjust gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 29:24

He who is a partner with a thief hates his own soul; he vows to tell the truth, but discloses nothing.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grave misery that I have observed under the sun: when riches were kept by an owner to his hurt,

Habakkuk 2:9

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the power of calamity!”

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money, but patient, not argumentative, not covetous;

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the plundered goods a beautiful robe from Babylon, two hundred shekels of silver, and a gold bar weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground in my tent. The silver is underneath them.”

Joshua 7:25

Then Joshua said, “Why have you brought trouble on us? The Lord will trouble you today!” So all Israel stoned him. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their judgment, made long ago, does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.