Proverbs 21:6

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: But he that gathereth by labour shall have increase.

Proverbs 20:14

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Proverbs 22:8

He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

Proverbs 8:36

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that gathereth young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereto ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

2 Peter 2:3

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.