Proverbs 10:2 {3}
Good News Translation
Wealth you get by dishonesty will do you no good, but honesty can save your life.

New Revised Standard Version
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Contemporary English Version
What you gain by doing evil won't help you at all. Obeying God is the only way to be saved from death.

New American Bible
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but justice saves from death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

treasures

Proverbs 11:4 The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Psalm 49:6-10 They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, . . .

Isaiah 10:2,3 To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless. . . .

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.

Luke 12:15-21 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth. . . .

Luke 16:22,23 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. . . .

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

but

Proverbs 12:28 In the path of justice is life: but the bye-way leadeth to death.

Daniel 4:27 And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon, which I have built, to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my power, and in the glory of my excellence?

Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Philippians 3:9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

Context
Solomon's Proverbs: The Wise Son
1Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death. 2The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.3The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds, that fly away.…
Cross References
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.

Luke 12:20
But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Psalm 49:7
No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

Proverbs 11:4
The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 21:6
He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

Ezekiel 7:19
Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Proverbs 10:1
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