Jeremiah 17:11

New American Bible - revised edition

A partridge that broods but does not hatch are those who acquire wealth unjustly: In midlife it will desert them; in the end they are only fools.

Cross References

Job 20:21

None of his survivors will consume it, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Psalm 49:13

—but man does not abide in splendor. He is like the beasts—they perish.

Psalm 55:23

Cast your care upon the Lord, who will give you support. He will never allow the righteous to stumble.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth won quickly dwindles away, but gathered little by little, it grows.

Proverbs 15:27

The greedy tear down their own house, but those who hate bribes will live.

Proverbs 21:6

Trying to get rich by lying is chasing a bubble over deadly snares.

Proverbs 23:5

When your glance flits to it, it is gone! For assuredly it grows wings, like the eagle that flies toward heaven.

Proverbs 28:16

The less prudent the rulers, the more oppressive their deeds. Those who hate ill-gotten gain prolong their days.

Proverbs 28:20

The trustworthy will be richly blessed; but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

Misers hurry toward wealth, not knowing that want is coming toward them.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever amasses wealth by interest and overcharge gathers it for the one who is kind to the poor.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house on wrongdoing, his roof-chambers on injustice; Who works his neighbors without pay, and gives them no wages.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own gain, On shedding innocent blood and practicing oppression and extortion.

Jeremiah 6:13

Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new owners. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain, prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Micah 2:9

The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; From their children you take away forever the honor I gave them.

Micah 7:3

Their hands succeed at evil; the prince makes demands, The judge is bought for a price, the powerful speak as they please.

Zephaniah 1:9

I will punish, on that day, all who leap over the threshold, Who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it forth—oracle of the Lord of hosts—so that it will come to the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It shall lodge within each house, consuming it, timber and stones.” Sixth Vision: The Basket of Wickedness.

Malachi 3:5

I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be swift to bear witness Against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, those who deprive a laborer of wages, Oppress a widow or an orphan, or turn aside a resident alien, without fearing me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. [

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and destruction.

Titus 1:11

It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.

2 Peter 2:14

Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children!

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with fabrications, but from of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction does not sleep. Lessons from the Past.