Cross references
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury
lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Proverbs 28:8 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 27:16–17 (11 votes) and Proverbs 13:22 (10 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Exodus 22 to 1 Peter 3.
Which verses does Proverbs 28:8 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Job 27:16–1711 votes
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
- Proverbs 13:2210 votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Ecclesiastes 2:268 votes
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Exodus 22:256 votes
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Leviticus 25:366 votes
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
- Ezekiel 18:175 votes
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
- Proverbs 14:314 votes
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
- Ezekiel 18:84 votes
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- Ezekiel 18:134 votes
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Proverbs 19:73 votes
All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- 2 Samuel 12:62 votes
Which verses point to Proverbs 28:8?
The 10 strongest of 21.