Proverbs 21:6

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

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

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gained by fraud will dwindle, but he who gathers by hand will increase it.

Proverbs 20:14

“It is no good, it is no good,” says the buyer, but when he goes his way, then he boasts.

Proverbs 20:21

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

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows injustice will reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath will disappear.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with my daily bread,

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 which it has not laid, so is he who gets riches, but not justly; it will forsake him in the midst of his days, and in the end he will be a fool.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Titus 1:11

who must be silenced, who subvert whole houses by teaching for dishonest gain things they ought not teach.

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.