Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
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Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 13:11Wealth got by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.
Isaiah 10:2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Daniel 4:27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and yours iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.
Luke 12:15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
Romans 2:5But after your hardness and refusing to repent heart treasure up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath 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 →