Proverbs 21:6

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

Cross References (12)

  • Proverbs 13:11 (8)

    Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.

  • Proverbs 10:2 (7)

    Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

  • Jeremiah 17:11 (5)

    Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his ric

  • Proverbs 20:21 (5)

    An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.

  • Proverbs 8:36 (4)

    But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

  • 1 Timothy 6:9–10 (3)

    Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that pl

  • Proverbs 20:14 (2)

    “Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

  • Proverbs 22:8 (2)

    He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  • Proverbs 30:8 (2)

    Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my po

  • 2 Peter 2:3 (2)

    In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remain

  • Titus 1:11 (0)

    who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should n

  • Ezekiel 18:31 (-1)

    Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new sp