Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of ethical wickedness profit nothing, 2 but righteousness delivers from death. 1
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In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, 2 but righteousness delivers from death. 1
Proverbs 13:11Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, 2 but he who gathers by hand makes it grow. 1
Isaiah 10:2to deprive the needy of their rights, and to rob the poor among my people of mishpat ·justice·, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the orphans their prey!
Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life does not consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
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 →