Proverbs 21:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

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

Proverbs 13:11

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

Proverbs 20:14

“Bad, bad!” says the buyer, then goes away only to boast.

Proverbs 20:21

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

Proverbs 22:8

Those who sow iniquity reap calamity, and the rod used in anger will fail.

Proverbs 30:8

Put falsehood and lying far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches; provide me only with the food I need;

Proverbs 8:36

But those who pass me by do violence to themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 17:11

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.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

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 2:3

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.