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With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:18 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
  • KJV Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches 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 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
  • Matt 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
  • Luke 16:11–12So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?
  • Phil 4:19And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
  • Eph 3:8Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
  • Rev 3:18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
  • Prov 4:7–9Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
  • Matt 6:19–20Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
  • Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
  • Luke 12:20–21But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
  • Phil 3:8–9More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
  • 2 Cor 6:10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
  • 1 Tim 6:17–19Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
  • Eccl 5:14–16or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
  • Luke 10:42But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
  • Jas 5:1–3Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
  • Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
  • Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
  • Ps 112:3Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
  • Prov 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance 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.

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