Proverbs 20:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Possessions greedily guarded at the outset will not be blessed in the end.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

Proverbs 20:20

Those who curse father or mother— their lamp will go out in the dead of night.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I will repay evil!” Wait for the Lord, who will help you.

Proverbs 21:6

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

Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth, cease to be worried about it;

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.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a taunt against him, and make a riddle about him, saying: Ah! you who store up what is not yours —how long can it last!— you who load yourself down with collateral.

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 2:2

And if you do not take to heart giving honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you and your blessing I will curse. In fact, I have already cursed it, because you do not take it to heart.

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.