Proverbs 11:4
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
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Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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Genesis 7:1And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
Job 36:18...
Proverbs 10:2Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Isaiah 10:3And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
Ezekiel 14:14Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, only themselves would they keep safe by their righteousness, says the Lord.
Matthew 16:26For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:4
Advantages of the Righteous. 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. It is not only promised that God will guide the upright, and threatened that he will destroy the transgressors, but, that we may be the more fully assured of both, it is here represented as if the nature of the thing were such on both sides that it would do it itself. 1. The integrity of an honest man will itself be his guide in the way of duty and the way of safety. His… Read the whole commentary →