Proverbs 11:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath, but justice saves from death.

Cross References

Genesis 7:1

Then the Lord said to Noah: Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this generation have I found to be righteous before me.

Job 20:28

The flood shall sweep away his house, torrents in the day of God’s anger.

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but justice saves from death.

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of justice is life, but the way of abomination leads to death.

Proverbs 6:34

For passion enrages the husband, he will have no pity on the day of vengeance;

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, when the storm comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth,

Ezekiel 14:14

even if these three were in it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they could only save themselves by their righteousness—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 7:19

They fling their silver into the streets, and their gold is considered unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their bellies, for it has been the occasion of their sin.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them. On the day of the Lord’s wrath, in the fire of his passion, all the earth will be consumed. For he will make an end, yes, a sudden end, of all who live on the earth.

Matthew 16:26

What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

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?’

Romans 5:17

For if, by the transgression of one person, death came to reign through that one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of justification come to reign in life through the one person Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 4:8

for, while physical training is of limited value, devotion is valuable in every respect, since it holds a promise of life both for the present and for the future.