Proverbs 10:2
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
1A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
Proverbs 13:11Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
Isaiah 10:2Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
Daniel 4:27For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
Luke 12:15And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
Romans 2:5But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:2
Weighty Sayings. 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Solomon, speaking to us as unto children, observes here how much the comfort of parents, natural, political, and ecclesiastical, depends upon the good behaviour of those under their charge, as a reason, 1. Why parents should be careful to give their children a good education, and to train them up in the ways of religion, which, if it obtain the desired effect, they themselves will have the… Read the whole commentary →