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 is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
• Prov 21:6Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
• Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Jer 22:13“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
• Prov 15:27He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
• Titus 1:11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
• Prov 13:11Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
• Prov 28:22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
• Hab 2:6–12Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
• Eccl 5:13–16There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
• Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• Zeph 1:9In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
• Jas 5:3–5Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
• Zech 7:9–13“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• Zech 5:4I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
• Prov 1:18–19but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Prov 28:16A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
• Amos 3:10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
• Mic 2:9You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
• Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• 1 Tim 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• Jer 5:27–28As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• Ezek 22:12–13In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
• Hos 12:7–8A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
• Mic 6:10–12Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
• Mic 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
• Isa 1:23–24Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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