Proverbs 10:2
The treasures of lawlessness, do not profit, but, righteousness, delivereth from death.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Wealth, shall not profit, in the day of wrath, but, righteousness, shall deliver from death.
Proverbs 13:11Wealth gotten by greed, diminisheth, but, he that gathereth by little, increaseth.
Isaiah 10:2Turning aside from judgment, the poor, And robbing, of justice, the oppressed of my people,—So that, widows, become, their spoil, And of the fatherless, they make prey.
Daniel 4:27Wherefore, O king, let, my counsel, be pleasing unto thee, thy sin, then,—by righteousness, break thou off, and, thine iniquities, by shewing favour to the oppressed,—if so be it may become the lengthening out of thy security.
Luke 12:15And he said unto them—Mind and be guarding yourselves from all covetousness; for not, in one’s abundance, doth his life spring out of his possessions.
Romans 2:5But, according to thy hardness, and [thine] impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself anger, in a day of anger and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,—
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 →