Proverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
BSB
ASV
Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.
KJV
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
HOMILY ON THE BEGINNING OF PROVERBS 14 (379)
[Solomon] leads toward understanding especially when he says, "Possessions are of no advantage in the day of wrath." For he infused your heart with the knowledge that an abundance of money will be of no help to you in that day, nor will it remove eternal punishment. And when he says, "The innocent will inherit the earth," he clearly means the earth of which the meek are also heirs, for first the psalmist said, "But the meek will inherit the earth," and then the Lord, when preaching about beatitude, said, "Blessed are the meek, for they will possess the earth."
In the day of public judgments riches often expose men rather than protect them, Ezek. vii. It is righteousness only that will deliver from the evil of death. A good conscience will make death easy, and take off the terror of it; it is the privilege of the righteous only not to be hurt of the second death, and so not much hurt by the first.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Timothy 4:8For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
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But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
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Genesis 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.