Proverbs 1:19

New King James Version

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

Cross References

Job 31:39

If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or caused its owners to lose their lives;

Psalm 7:16

His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares.

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 29:24

Whoever is a partner with a thief hates his own life; He swears to tell the truth, but reveals nothing.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.

Habakkuk 2:9

“Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster!

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.”

Joshua 7:25

And Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

2 Peter 2:3

By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.