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Proverbs 10

Prov. 10:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Treasures
'owtsar (Hebrew #214)
a depository
KJV usage: armory, cellar, garner, store(-house), treasure(-house) (-y).
Pronounce: o-tsaw'
Origin: from 686
p of wickedness
resha` (Hebrew #7562)
a wrong (especially moral)
KJV usage: iniquity, wicked(-ness).
Pronounce: reh'-shah
Origin: from 7561
profit
ya`al (Hebrew #3276)
properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively: useful, subjectively: benefited)
KJV usage: X at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).
Pronounce: yaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
nothing: but righteousness
tsdaqah (Hebrew #6666)
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV usage: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Pronounce: tsed-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 6663
r delivereth
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
from death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
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Luke 12:19‑21• 19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
 20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
 21Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:19‑21)
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Dan. 4:27• 27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. (Dan. 4:27)
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Phil. 3:9• 9and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith, (Phil. 3:9)

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Treasures.
Prov. 11:4• 4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death. (Prov. 11:4)
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Psa. 49:6‑10• 6They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. …
 7None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
 8(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,)
 9That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption.
 10For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others. (Psa. 49:6‑10)
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Isa. 10:2‑3• 2to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
 3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the sudden destruction which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help, and where will ye leave your glory? (Isa. 10:2‑3)
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Zeph. 1:18• 18their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden end, shall he make of all them that dwell in the land. (Zeph. 1:18)
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Luke 12:15‑21• 15And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.
 16And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
 17And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not a place where I shall lay up my fruits.
 18And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;
 19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
 20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
 21Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:15‑21)
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Luke 16:22‑23• 22And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
 23And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Luke 16:22‑23)
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Rom. 2:5• 5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, (Rom. 2:5)
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James 5:1‑3• 1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.
 2Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
 3Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days. (James 5:1‑3)
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Prov. 12:28• 28In the path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death. (Prov. 12:28)
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Dan. 4:27• 27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. (Dan. 4:27)
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Rom. 5:21• 21in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:21)
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Phil. 3:9• 9and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith, (Phil. 3:9)
• Righteousness, however much one may be called upon to suffer for it in a world like this, “delivereth from death,” when that death, as in the case of the flood and many lesser incidents, is an evidence of God’s judgment. In the book of Esther Haman is the exemplification of the former, and Mordecai of the latter. (“Proverbs Ten” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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