2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; …
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-3)These two verses speak to the same purport, and the latter may be the reason of the former. 1. That wealth which men get unjustly will do them no good, because God will blast it: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing , Prov. 10:2. The treasures of wicked people, much more the treasure which they have made themselves masters of by any wicked people, by oppression of fraud, though it be ever so muc…
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