Proverbs 1:19
This is what happens to you if you try to become rich through crime—it kills you!
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In Context
20Wisdom calls out in the streets; she shouts aloud in the squares.
Cross References
Joshua 7:25Then Joshua said to Achan, “Why did you bring so much trouble down on us? Today the Lord will bring trouble down on you.” All the Israelites stoned Achan. Then when they had stoned the rest they burned their bodies.
2 Kings 5:20when Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “Just look how my master has let this Naaman the Syrian off the hook by not accepting the gifts he brought! As the Lord lives, I'll run after him and get something from him.”
Psalms 7:16The trouble they cause rebounds to hit them on the head; their violence against others comes down on their own skulls.
Proverbs 23:3Don't be greedy for his fancy food, for it's offered with deceptive motives.
Ecclesiastes 5:13I observed something here that is really sickening: people who hoard money damage themselves.
Micah 2:1How disastrous it will be for those who devise evil plans as they lie awake at night. They get up in the morning to carry them out, because they have the power to do just that.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →