Psalm 17:14

New English Translation

Lord, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.

Cross References

Job 12:6

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

Job 12:9

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

Job 21:21

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

Job 22:18

But it was he who filled their houses with good things – yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

Psalm 73:12

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 8:23

Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

James 5:5

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.