Proverbs 20:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.”
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“An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.”
King James Version · Public Domain“An inheritancemay be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 20:21 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
- Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Proverbs 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
- Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
- Habakkuk 2:6Will 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?’
- Zechariah 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
- Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
- 1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
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