Proverbs 10:2
Treasures accumulated by wickedness have no value, 1 but doing what is right keeps you from death. 1
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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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Proverbs 11:4Wealth is worthless on the day of wrath, 1 but doing right keeps you from death. 1
Proverbs 13:11Wealth dwindles away when there is too much vanity, 1 but the one who makes money by working with his hand will make his money grow. 1
Isaiah 10:2They deprive the needy of justice, rob the poor of my people of their rights, 1 plunder widows, and make the fatherless their prey! 1
Daniel 4:27Therefore, king, let my advice be acceptable to you. Stop sinning and do what is right. Turn away from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, and it may be that your prosperity will be extended.”
Luke 12:15He said to them, “Watch that you keep yourselves from all greedy desires, because a person's life does not consist of the abundance of his possessions.”
Romans 2:5But it is to the extent of your hardness and unrepentant heart that you are storing up for yourself wrath on the day of wrath, that is, the day of the revelation of God's righteous judgment.
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 →