Proverbs 21:6

The Scriptures 1998

Gaining treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapour, heading for death.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth from vanity diminishes, But he who gathers by hand increases.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wrongness are of no value, But righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance obtained with greed at the beginning Is not 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 leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Proverbs 8:36

“But he who sins against me injures himself; All who hate me love death!”

Proverbs 30:8

Remove falsehood and a lying word far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me my portion of bread;

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows unrighteousness reaps trouble, And the rod of his wrath perishes.

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

Proverbs 20:14

“Evil! Evil!” cries the buyer; But when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths have to be stopped, who upset entire households, teaching what they should not teach, for the sake of filthy gain.

Ezekiel 18:31

“Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕ