Proverbs 21:6

New International Version

A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:11

Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.

Proverbs 20:14

“It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer— then goes off and boasts about the purchase.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance claimed too soon will not be blessed at the end.

Proverbs 22:8

Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.

Proverbs 30:8

Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

Proverbs 8:36

But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 17:11

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.

Ezekiel 18:31

Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel?

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.