Proverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
1The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
3The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Proverbs 13:11Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
Isaiah 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
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 →