Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10:2 - New Revised Standard Version Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) delivers from death. American Standard Version (1901) Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death. Common English Bible The treasure of the wicked won’t profit them, but righteousness rescues people from death. Catholic Public Domain Version Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death. |
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
In the path of righteousness there is life, in walking its path there is no death.
Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but those who gather little by little will increase it.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
They shall fling their silver into the streets, their gold shall be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness, and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord's wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed; for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
so that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.