Proverbs 21:6

Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

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Genesis 31:1
Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

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Deuteronomy 8:17
and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Proverbs 17:19
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,

Isaiah 10:14
My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

Hosea 12:8
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

Nahum 2:9
Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

Nahum 2:10
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

Nahum 2:11
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?

Nahum 2:12
The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey.

Nahum 2:13
“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.

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2 Samuel 16:3
The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”

2 Samuel 19:27
He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

Psalms 15:3
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Psalms 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

Proverbs 6:16
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 21:4
A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Proverbs 21:28
A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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1 Chronicles 9:13
and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; they were very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.

Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 32:13
Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

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Job 31:5
“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Psalms 41:6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Psalms 144:8
whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalms 144:11
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Proverbs 14:27
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?

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Psalms 68:3
But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

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Proverbs 11:27
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Amos 5:14
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

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Proverbs 20:11
Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

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Psalms 119:29
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

Psalms 119:37
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Isaiah 57:13
When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

John 2:8
He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

Acts 14:15
“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of the same nature as you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

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Song of Solomon 5:14
His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

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Isaiah 42:2
He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

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Joshua 7:1
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.

2 Kings 5:23
Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

2 Kings 5:24
When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.

Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.

Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Amos 3:10
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Zephaniah 1:9
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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