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Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:18 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
  • 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; and in her left hand riches and honour.
  • Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  • Luke 16:11–12If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
  • Phil 4:19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
  • Eph 3:8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
  • Rev 3:18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
  • Prov 4:7–9Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
  • Matt 6:19–20Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
  • Luke 12:33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
  • Luke 12:20–21But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
  • Phil 3:8–9Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
  • 2 Cor 6:10As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
  • 1 Tim 6:17–19Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
  • Eccl 5:14–16But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
  • Luke 10:42But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
  • Jas 5:1–3Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
  • Ps 36:6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
  • Jas 2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
  • Ps 112:3Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
  • Prov 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth 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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