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With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
Proverbs 8:18 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
  • BSB With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.
  • NKJV Riches and honor are with me, Enduring riches and righteousness.
  • NASB “Riches and honor are with me, Enduring wealth and righteousness.
  • NLT I have riches and honor, as well as enduring wealth and justice.

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Quick answer

Riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity are found with wisdom. The truest and most lasting good comes through her.

Overview

Wisdom holds out genuine and enduring blessings, distinguishing 'enduring wealth' from the fleeting gains of the wicked. While Proverbs often connects wisdom with temporal blessing, the emphasis on what 'endures' points beyond mere material gain to lasting righteousness and honor before God. These are realized fully in Christ, in whom believers inherit incorruptible riches (1 Peter 1:4).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Prov 3:16Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
  • Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Luke 16:11–12If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
  • Phil 4:19My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
  • Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
  • Rev 3:18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
  • Prov 4:7–9Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
  • Matt 6:19–20“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
  • Luke 12:33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
  • Luke 12:20–21“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?’
  • Phil 3:8–9Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
  • 2 Cor 6:10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
  • 1 Tim 6:17–19Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
  • Eccl 5:14–16Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
  • Luke 10:42but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
  • Jas 5:1–3Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
  • Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
  • Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
  • Ps 112:3Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.
  • Prov 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

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Christ at the center

Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.

How Proverbs 8:18 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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