Proverbs 1:19

This is the destiny of all who are greedy for unjust gain: it costs them their lives. It matters because it states the deadly principle behind the whole warning.

Cross-references · 16

• Prov 15:27He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
• 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.
• Jer 22:17–19“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
• Hab 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
• Mic 2:1–3Woe 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.
• Prov 23:3–4Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Mic 3:10–12who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
• Acts 8:19–20“Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
• Eccl 5:13There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
• 1 Tim 3:3not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.
• 2 Kgs 5:20–27Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, while not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
• 1 Tim 6:9–10Those 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.
• 2 Pet 2:14–16Their 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.
• Job 31:39if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
• 2 Sam 18:11–13“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”

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