Jeremiah 17:11 Cross References

Jeremiah 17:11

11: Like a bird that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. Sooner or later they will lose their riches and, at the end of their lives, will become poor old fools.

Proverbs 28:20

  1. The trustworthy will get a rich reward. But the person who wants to get rich quick will only get into trouble.

Proverbs 28:8

  1. A person who makes money by charging interest will lose it. It will end up in the hands of someone who is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 21:6

  1. Wealth created by lying is a vanishing mist and a deadly trap.

Proverbs 15:27

  1. Dishonest money brings grief to the whole family, but those who hate bribes will live.

Zechariah 7:9

  1. "This is what the LORD Almighty says: Judge fairly and honestly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.
  2. Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and poor people. And do not make evil plans to harm each other.
  3. "Your ancestors would not listen to this message. They turned stubbornly away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.
  4. They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the law or the messages that the LORD Almighty had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the LORD Almighty was so angry with them.
  5. "Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the LORD Almighty.

2 Peter 2:14

  1. They commit adultery with their eyes, and their lust is never satisfied. They make a game of luring unstable people into sin. They train themselves to be greedy; they are doomed and cursed.

Proverbs 13:11

  1. Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows.

Zephaniah 1:9

  1. Yes, I will punish those who participate in pagan worship ceremonies, and those who steal and kill to fill their masters' homes with loot.

Jeremiah 22:13

  1. And the LORD says, "Destruction is certain for Jehoiakim, who builds his palace with forced labor. By not paying wages, he builds injustice into its walls and oppression into its doorframes and ceilings.

Luke 12:20

  1. "But God said to him, 'You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get it all?'

Proverbs 28:22

  1. A greedy person tries to get rich quick, but it only leads to poverty.

Micah 2:1

  1. How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
  2. When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!

Habakkuk 2:6

  1. But the time is coming when all their captives will taunt them, saying, `You thieves! At last justice has caught up with you! Now you will get what you deserve for your oppression and extortion!'
  2. Suddenly, your debtors will rise up in anger. They will turn on you and take all you have, while you stand trembling and helpless.
  3. You have plundered many nations; now they will plunder you. You murderers! You have filled the countryside with violence and all the cities, too.
  4. "How terrible it will be for you who get rich by unjust means! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your families beyond the reach of danger.
  5. But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

  1. There is another serious problem I have seen in the world. Riches are sometimes hoarded to the harm of the saver,
  2. or they are put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one's children.
  3. People who live only for wealth come to the end of their lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day they were born.
  4. And this, too, is a very serious problem. As people come into this world, so they depart. All their hard work is for nothing. They have been working for the wind, and everything will be swept away.

Jeremiah 22:17

  1. "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."

Psalms 55:23

  1. But you, O God, will send the wicked down to the pit of destruction. Murderers and liars will die young, but I am trusting you to save me.

Proverbs 28:16

  1. Only a stupid prince will oppress his people, but a king will have a long reign if he hates dishonesty and bribes.

Micah 2:9

  1. You have evicted women from their homes and stripped their children of all their God-given rights.

2 Peter 2:3

  1. In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money. But God condemned them long ago, and their destruction is on the way.

Ezekiel 22:12

  1. There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere! They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign LORD.
  2. "But now I clap my hands in indignation over your dishonest gain and bloodshed.

1 Timothy 6:9

  1. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

Amos 3:10

  1. "My people have forgotten what it means to do right," says the LORD. "Their fortresses are filled with wealth taken by theft and violence.

Micah 6:10

  1. Will there be no end of your getting rich by cheating? The homes of the wicked are filled with treasures gained by dishonestly measuring out grain in short measures.
  2. And how can I tolerate all your merchants who use dishonest scales and weights?
  3. The rich among you have become wealthy through extortion and violence. Your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can no longer tell the truth.

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!
  2. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.
  3. And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Micah 7:3

  1. They go about their evil deeds with both hands. How skilled they are at using them! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with money and influence pay them off, and together they scheme to twist justice.

Titus 1:11

  1. They must be silenced. By their wrong teaching, they have already turned whole families away from the truth. Such teachers only want your money.

Isaiah 1:23

  1. Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.
  2. Therefore, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, says, "I will pour out my fury on you, my enemies!

Proverbs 1:18

  1. But not these people! They set an ambush for themselves; they booby-trap their own lives!
  2. Such is the fate of all who are greedy for gain. It ends up robbing them of life.

James 5:3

  1. Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment.
  2. For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
  3. You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every whim. Now your hearts are nice and fat, ready for the slaughter.

Proverbs 23:5

  1. For riches can disappear as though they had the wings of a bird!

Malachi 3:5

  1. At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.

Hosea 12:7

  1. But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales--they love to cheat.
  2. Israel boasts, "I am rich, and I've gotten it all by myself! No one can say I got it by cheating! My record is spotless!"

Matthew 23:13

  1. "How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you won't let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and you won't go in yourselves.

Jeremiah 5:27

  1. Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.
  2. They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.

Zechariah 5:4

  1. And this is what the LORD Almighty says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely by my name. And my curse will remain in that house until it is completely destroyed--even its timbers and stones."
Home