Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts shall live.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
In Context
28The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Deuteronomy 7:26Neither shall you bring an abomination into yours house, lest you be a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly detest it; for it is a cursed thing.
Joshua 6:18And all of you, in any way keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest all of you make yourselves accursed, when all of you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
Joshua 7:24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after illegal gain, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
2 Kings 5:27The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto you, and unto your seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:27
26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord : but the words of the pure are pleasant words. The former part of this verse speaks of thoughts, the latter of words, but they come all to one; for thoughts are words to God, and words are judged of by the thoughts from which they proceed, so that, 1. The thoughts and words of the wicked, which are, like themselves, wicked, which aim at mischief, and have some ill tendency or other, are an abomination to the Lord; he is displeased at them and will… Read the whole commentary →