Proverbs 21:6

Tree of Life Version

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is like a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gained by fraud dwindles, but he who gathers by labor increases it.

Proverbs 20:14

“It’s bad, bad!” says the buyer, but then he goes away and boasts.

Proverbs 20:21

An estate acquired quickly in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 22:8

One who sows injustice will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will perish.

Proverbs 30:8

Keep falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but feed me with my allotted bread,

Proverbs 8:36

But whoever fails to find me harms his life— all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay, so is one who gets wealth, unjustly. In the middle of his days it will abandon him, so at his end he will be a fool.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced—those who upset entire households by teaching what they should not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.