Proverbs 1:13
We shall find all precious substance. We shall fill our houses with spoil.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
In Context
12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.
14Thou shall cast thy lot among us. We will all have one bag.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
Jeremiah 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.
Amos 3:10For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Haggai 2:9The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says LORD of hosts, and in this place I will give peace, says LORD of hosts.
1 Timothy 6:9But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →