Proverbs 20:21

Modern English Version

An inheritance gained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons’ children, but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 20:20

He who vilifies his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait on the Lord, and He will save you.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

Proverbs 23:4

Toil not to acquire wealth; cease from your own understanding.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

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

Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by usury and extortion gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a taunt against him, with satire and riddles, and say, “Woe to him who increases what is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with heavy debts!”

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it out, says the Lord of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain in his house and consume it, with its timber and stones.”

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart to give honor to My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse on you and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

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