Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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Genesis 7:1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Job 36:18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 10:3And what will all of you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will all of you flee for help? and where will all of you leave your glory?
Ezekiel 14:14Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD.
Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:4
Advantages of the Righteous. 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. It is not only promised that God will guide the upright, and threatened that he will destroy the transgressors, but, that we may be the more fully assured of both, it is here represented as if the nature of the thing were such on both sides that it would do it itself. 1. The integrity of an honest man will itself be his guide in the way of duty and the way of safety. His… Read the whole commentary →