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 gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
• 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.
• Jer 22:17–19But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Hab 2:9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
• Mic 2:1–3Woe 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.
• Prov 23:3–4Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Mic 3:10–12They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
• Acts 8:19–20saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
• Eccl 5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
• 1 Tim 3:3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
• 2 Kgs 5:20–27But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
• 1 Tim 6:9–10But 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.
• 2 Pet 2:14–16having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• Job 31:39if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
• 2 Sam 18:11–13Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”

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