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King James Version

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Riches;   Righteousness;   Vanity;   Thompson Chain Reference - Profit and Loss;   Sin;   Unprofitable, Sin;   The Topic Concordance - Deliverance;   Profit;   Righteousness;   Wealth;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Prov'erbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alms;   Atonement;   Tobit, Book of;   Ẓedaḳah Box;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ill-gotten gains do not profit anyone,but righteousness rescues from death.
Hebrew Names Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.
English Standard Version
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
New American Standard Bible
Ill-gotten gains do not benefit, But righteousness rescues from death.
New Century Version
Riches gotten by doing wrong have no value, but right living will save you from death.
New English Translation
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.
Amplified Bible
Treasures of wickedness and ill-gotten gains do not profit, But righteousness and moral integrity in daily life rescues from death.
World English Bible
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The treasures of wickednesse profite nothing: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
Legacy Standard Bible
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,But righteousness delivers from death.
Berean Standard Bible
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Contemporary English Version
What you gain by doing evil won't help you at all, but being good can save you from death.
Complete Jewish Bible
No good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness rescues from death.
Darby Translation
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Easy-to-Read Version
Wealth gained by doing wrong will not really help you, but doing right will save you from death.
George Lamsa Translation
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivers from death.
Good News Translation
Wealth you get by dishonesty will do you no good, but honesty can save your life.
Lexham English Bible
Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Literal Translation
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothinge, but rightuousnesse delyuereth from death.
American Standard Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.
Bible in Basic English
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
King James Version (1611)
Treasures of wickednesse profit nothing: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profite nothing: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.
English Revised Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tresouris of wickidnesse schulen not profite; but riytfulnesse schal delyuere fro deth.
Update Bible Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivers from death.
Webster's Bible Translation
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
New King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.
New Living Translation
Tainted wealth has no lasting value, but right living can save your life.
New Life Bible
Riches taken by wrong-doing do no good, but doing what is right and good saves from death.
New Revised Standard
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The treasures of lawlessness, do not profit, but, righteousness, delivereth from death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
Revised Standard Version
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Young's Literal Translation
Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.
THE MESSAGE
Ill-gotten gain gets you nowhere; an honest life is immortal.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Ill-gotten gains do not profit, But righteousness delivers from death.

Contextual Overview

2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Treasures: Proverbs 11:4, Psalms 49:6-10, Isaiah 10:2, Isaiah 10:3, Zephaniah 1:18, Luke 12:15-21, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23, Romans 2:5, James 5:1-3

but: Proverbs 12:28, Daniel 4:27, Romans 5:21, Philippians 3:9

Reciprocal: Job 36:19 - Will Psalms 49:9 - That he Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth Proverbs 21:6 - getting Micah 6:10 - the treasures Zechariah 9:4 - the Lord James 5:20 - from death

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis 10:12
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
Genesis 10:14
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
Genesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Isaiah 66:19
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Ezekiel 27:7
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Ezekiel 27:19
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
Ezekiel 38:6
Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Ezekiel 38:15
And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,.... By which are meant either a large abundance of riches in general, which for the most part are enjoyed by wicked men, and abused to wicked purposes, Proverbs 11:4; or an affluence of them, obtained in a wicked way, by fraud, oppression, and the like; see Micah 6:10; Or are either not used at all, or put to wicked uses: what are not used profit not the possessors of them, for they are "kept to the hurt of the owners" of them; and those which are got by ill means, or put to an ill use, "perish by evil travel", Ecclesiastes 5:13. Nor can anyone by his riches either redeem himself or his brother from destruction, or give to God a ransom for him; nor can he by them save himself from a corporeal death one year, one month, one day, one hour, one moment; nor will they be of any service to him in the day of judgment, when wrath comes forth against him;

but righteousness delivereth from death; either that which is righteously got, though it be ever so little, is a means of preserving life, and keeps their souls from famishing, Proverbs 10:3; or else what is liberally dispensed, for alms are called "righteousness", Psalms 112:9 Daniel 4:27. These are oftentimes the means of saving the lives of persons ready to perish, on whom they are bestowed, and who will venture their lives to save their benefactors; and such liberal persons are oftentimes blessed with long life, and are kept alive when threatened with death, Psalms 41:1; and though their good deeds are not meritorious of eternal life, yet they are rewarded with it in a way of grace, Matthew 25:34. Moreover, righteousness may be considered as legal and evangelical; a legal righteousness, or the righteousness of men in obedience to the law, cannot deliver from the sentence of death the law has passed; it is not properly a righteousness; it is imperfect, cannot justify, save, or bring to heaven, or entitle to life; notwithstanding this a man must die: but there is an evangelical righteousness; and this is either imparted and implanted in men, is the new man, which is created in righteousness and holiness; and this delivers from a moral or spiritual death, a death in trespasses and sins men are in; for by it they are quickened, live a life of faith on Christ, and have communion with God; have his image stamped on them, and live to him, and to Christ, and to righteousness, being freed from the servitude and dominion of sin; living in which is no other than death: or this righteousness is imputed, which is the righteousness of Christ; wrought out for them, reckoned to them, received by them, and by which they are justified; this delivers them, though not from a corporeal death, yet from the sting and curse of it, and from it as a penal evil, or as a punishment for sin: and it delivers from a legal death, or from the sentence and condemnation of the law, and from the second and eternal death, and entities them to life everlasting.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Righteousness - Including, perhaps, the idea of benevolence. Compare the use of δικαιοσύνη dikaiosunē, in Matthew 6:1 (the older reading), and 2 Corinthians 9:9-10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 10:2. Treasures of wickedness — Property gained by wicked means.

Delivered from death — Treasures gained by robbery often bring their possessors to an untimely death; but those gained by righteous dealing bring with them no such consequences.


 
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