Proverbs 1:19

Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

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1 Samuel 8:4
Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,

1 Samuel 8:5
And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.

2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

2 Kings 5:27
Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.

Proverbs 11:19
So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

Proverbs 11:29
The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

Proverbs 20:21
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

Proverbs 28:20
A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

Matthew 27:5
And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.

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Job 31:39
If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

James 5:2
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

James 5:4
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

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Psalms 10:3
For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

Proverbs 17:8
An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

Proverbs 29:24
A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.

Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Jeremiah 5:26
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

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Psalms 26:4
I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

Proverbs 4:14
Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

Proverbs 4:15
Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

Proverbs 7:23
Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

Proverbs 9:6
Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

Proverbs 13:20
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

Romans 1:32
Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

Ephesians 5:11
And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

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Proverbs 21:26
All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

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Proverbs 24:8
He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.

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Ecclesiastes 7:12
Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

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