Proverbs 20:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²¹ An inheritance gained prematurely will not be blessed ultimately.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ An inheritance hastily gotten [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginning, in the end it will not be blessed. [Prov. 28:20; Hab. 2:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Common English Bible

²¹ Inheritance gained quickly at first won’t bless later on.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ When an inheritance is obtained hastily in the beginning, in the end it will be without a blessing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

Proverbs 20:21 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his   grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or mother   #– # his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Don’t say, ‘I will avenge this evil! ’ Wait on the Lord,  and he will rescue you.

Proverbs 21:6

Making a fortune through a lying tongue is a vanishing mist,  a pursuit of death.  ,,

Proverbs 23:4

Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; because you know better, stop!

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful person will have many blessings, but one in a hurry to get rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

A greedy one  is in a hurry for wealth; he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever increases his wealth through excessive interest collects it for one who is kind to the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles about him? They will say, ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his – how much longer?   – and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.’

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it out,’   #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #‘and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.’

Malachi 2:2

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart  to honour my name,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings.  In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.