Proverbs 10:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.”
Read Proverbs 10:2 in the flow of Proverbs10 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Proverbs10 to see the surrounding context.
“Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 10:2 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Proverbs 12:28There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
- Proverbs 13:11Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
- Proverbs 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
- Isaiah 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Ezekiel 7:19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
- Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
- Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
- Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
- Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Romans 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Philippians 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
- James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
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