Proverbs 21:6

New King James Version

Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, But he who gathers by labor will increase.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning Will not be blessed at the end.

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, So is he who gets riches, but not by right; It will leave him in the midst of his days, And at his end he will be a fool.”

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 30:8

Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me;

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow, And the rod of his anger will fail.

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.

Proverbs 20:14

“It is good for nothing,” cries the buyer; But when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?