Proverbs 20:21 - King James Version - American Edition

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

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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 leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 20:22

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Proverbs 23:4

Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 28:22

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Proverbs 28:8

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

1 Timothy 6:9

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.