Proverbs 10:22

Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no sorrow with it. True prosperity comes from God and is free of the grief that ill-gotten gain carries.

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• Ps 107:38He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
• Gen 26:12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
• 1 Sam 2:7–8The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
• Gen 24:35And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
• Gen 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
• Deut 8:17–18And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
• Ps 37:22For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
• Ps 113:7–8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
• Prov 20:21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
• Gen 13:2And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
• Prov 28:22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
• 2 Kgs 5:26–27And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
• 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.
• Gen 14:23That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
• Job 27:8–23For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
• Jas 5:1–5Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Josh 7:1–26But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
• Josh 6:18And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
• 1 Kgs 21:19And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
• 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!

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