Proverbs 10:2
2 aTreasures gained by wickedness do not profit,bbut righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 13:11
11 cWealth gained hastily ▼▼Or by fraud
will dwindle,but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 20:14
14“Bad, bad,” says the buyer,but when he goes away, then he boasts.
Proverbs 20:21
21 eAn inheritance gained hastily in the beginningwill not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 22:8
8Whoever fsows injustice will reap calamity,and gthe rod of his fury will fail.
Proverbs 30:8
8Remove far from me falsehood and lying;give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is hneedful for me,
Jeremiah 17:11
11 Like the ipartridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,so is jhe who gets riches but not by justice;
kin the midst of his days they will leave him,
land at his end he will be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
9But mthose who desire to be rich fall into temptation, ninto a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that oplunge people into ruin and destruction. 10For the love of money is a root of pall kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.Titus 1:11
11They must be silenced, since qthey are upsetting whole families by teaching rfor shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
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