Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
Parallel translations
- KJV Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
- BSB Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- NKJV Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.
- NASB Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly rely on robbery; If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.
- NLT Don’t make your living by extortion or put your hope in stealing. And if your wealth increases, don’t make it the center of your life.
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- 1 Tim 6:17Charge 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;
- Ps 52:7“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
- Jer 17:11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the middle of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
- 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Deut 6:10–12It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
- Isa 61:8“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Job 31:24–25“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
- Deut 8:12–14lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
- Job 20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
- Job 27:16–23Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
- Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
- Isa 30:12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
- Mark 10:23Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”
- Luke 12:15–21He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
- Ps 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches —
- Mark 8:36–37For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
- Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
- Isa 59:4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
- Isa 47:10For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
- Ps 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
- Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- Isa 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
- Jer 13:25This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh; “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
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