Proverbs 13:11

Dishonest wealth dwindles, but what is gathered diligently grows. God's blessing rests on honest, patient labor, not on shortcuts.

Cross-references · 16

• Prov 20:21An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
• Prov 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
• Jas 5:1–5Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• Prov 13:22–23A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
• Prov 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
• Prov 27:23–27Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
• Prov 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
• Jer 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
• Hab 2:6–7Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
• Ps 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
• Job 20:15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
• Job 20:19–22For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
• Eccl 5:14or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
• Job 15:28–29he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

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