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 shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
• Prov 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
• Jer 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Jer 22:13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
• Prov 15:27He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
• Prov 28:8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
• Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
• Prov 13:11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
• Prov 28:22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
• Hab 2:6–12Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
• Eccl 5:13–16There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
• Ps 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• 2 Pet 2:14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• Zeph 1:9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
• Jas 5:3–5Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
• Zech 7:9–13Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
• Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
• Zech 5:4I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
• Prov 1:18–19And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
• Matt 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
• Prov 28:16The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
• Amos 3:10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
• Mic 2:9The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
• Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• 1 Tim 6:9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Jer 5:27–28As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• 2 Pet 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• Ezek 22:12–13In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
• Prov 23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
• Hos 12:7–8He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
• Mic 6:10–12Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
• Mic 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
• Isa 1:23–24Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

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