Proverbs 8:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.”
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BSBPD
“With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Riches and honor are with me; Yea, durable wealth and righteousness.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Wealth and honour <FI>are<Fi> with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 8:18 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
- Psalms 112:3Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
- Proverbs 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- Proverbs 4:7Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Proverbs 24:4through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
- Ecclesiastes 5:14or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Luke 10:42But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- Luke 16:11So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?
- 2 Corinthians 6:10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
- Ephesians 3:8Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
- Philippians 3:8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
- Philippians 4:19And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
- James 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
- James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- Revelation 3:18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
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