Cross references

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing,

but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 10:2 BSB

Proverbs 10:2 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 11:4 (15 votes) and Proverbs 12:28 (8 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Job 36 to James 5.

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Which verses does Proverbs 10:2 point to?

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  1. Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

  2. There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

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

  4. They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches. No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God. …

  5. They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

  6. Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.

  7. so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  8. to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

  9. Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

  10. One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.

  11. Romans 2:52 votes

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