Proverbs 15:27
He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
In Context
26Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Deuteronomy 7:26And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
Joshua 6:18And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.
Joshua 7:24Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
2 Kings 5:27Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:27
26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord : but the words of the pure are pleasant words. The former part of this verse speaks of thoughts, the latter of words, but they come all to one; for thoughts are words to God, and words are judged of by the thoughts from which they proceed, so that, 1. The thoughts and words of the wicked, which are, like themselves, wicked, which aim at mischief, and have some ill tendency or other, are an abomination to the Lord; he is displeased at them and will… Read the whole commentary →