Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 13:11Wealth [gotten] by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase [it].
Isaiah 10:2to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Daniel 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Luke 12:15And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for [it is] not because a man is in abundance [that] his life is in his possessions.
Romans 2:5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God,
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 →