Proverbs 13:11
Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
BSB
ASV
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.
KJV
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
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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Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
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A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
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…
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Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
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Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
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Proverbs 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
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Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful…
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
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Proverbs 20:21An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
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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.
By vanity - literally, “by a breath,” i. e., by a windfall, or sudden stroke of fortune, not by honest labor. The general meaning seems to be that the mere possession of riches is as nothing; they come and go, but the power to gain by skill of hand (“labor”) is everything.