Cross references

Proverbs 21:6

Making a fortune by a lying tongue

is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

Proverbs 21:6 BSB

Proverbs 21:6 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 13:11 (11 votes) and Proverbs 10:2 (9 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Psalm 10 to 2 Peter 2.

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Which verses does Proverbs 21:6 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

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

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

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

  4. Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

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

  6. Those 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. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

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

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

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

  10. In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

  11. Titus 1:112 votes

Which verses point to Proverbs 21:6?

The 10 strongest of 11.