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Solomon’s Proverbs: The Wise Son

Proverbs 10:2

In 11 translations

BSB
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
KJV
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
WEB
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
ASV
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.
LSV
Treasures of wickedness do not profit, || And righteousness delivers from death.
YLT
Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.
DBY
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
DRC
Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
GNV
The treasures of wickednesse profite nothing: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
JPS
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
LXXE
Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לֹא־י֭וֹעִילוּ אוֹצְר֣וֹת רֶ֑שַׁע וּ֝צְדָקָ֗ה תַּצִּ֥יל מִמָּֽוֶת׃
LXX-Br
Οὐκ ὠφελήσουσι θησαυροὶ ἀνόμους, δικαιοσύνη δὲ ῥύσεται ἐκ θανάτου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
  • Proverbs 12:28There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
  • Proverbs 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
  • Psalms 49:6–10They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches. No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God. For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice, that he should live…
  • Ezekiel 7:19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs…
  • Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on…
  • Romans 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Luke 16:22–23One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
  • Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
  • Isaiah 10:2–3to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from…
  • Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • Luke 12:15–21And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man…
  • James 5:1–3Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and…
  • Philippians 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

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