Jeremiah 17:11

Wealth gained unjustly is like a bird hatching eggs not its own. It will desert the owner, leaving him a fool at life's end.

Cross-references · 35

• Prov 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
• Prov 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
• Jer 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
• Jer 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
• Prov 15:27He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• Titus 1:11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
• Prov 13:11Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
• Prov 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
• Hab 2:6–12Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
• Eccl 5:13–16There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
• Ps 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
• 2 Pet 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
• Zeph 1:9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
• Jas 5:3–5Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
• Zech 7:9–13“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• Zech 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
• Prov 1:18–19But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Prov 28:16A leader who lacks judgment is also a great oppressor, but he who hates dishonest profit will prolong his days.
• Amos 3:10“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
• Mic 2:9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• 1 Tim 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
• Jer 5:27–28Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
• 2 Pet 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
• Ezek 22:12–13In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
• Prov 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
• Hos 12:7–8A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
• Mic 6:10–12Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
• Mic 7:3Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
• Isa 1:23–24Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

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