Proverbs 10:2
Wealth gained through evil does you no good; but living right saves you from death.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
3The Lord doesn't let good people go hungry, but he stops the wicked from getting what they want.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Wealth won't help you on judgment day, but goodness saves you from death.
Proverbs 13:11Wealth gained by fraud quickly disappears, but those who gather bit by bit prosper.
Isaiah 10:2They pervert the legal rights of the needy, and rob justice from the poor of my people. They steal from widows and cheat orphans.
Daniel 4:27So, Your Majesty, please take my advice. Stop sinning and do what's right. End your iniquities and be merciful to the oppressed. Maybe then things will continue to go well for you.”
Luke 12:15“Watch out, and beware of all greedy thoughts and actions, for a person's life isn't summed up by all the things they own.”
Romans 2:5Due to your hard-hearted attitude and your refusal to repent, you're making things far worse for yourself on the day of retribution when God's judgment is demonstrated to be absolutely right.
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 →