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Proverbs 20:21
Proverbs 20:21 is verse 21 of Proverbs chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
King James Version
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
World English Bible
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.
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Proverbs 20:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
20 Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
21 An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
22 Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.
23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Proverbs 28:20A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
1 Timothy 6:9Those 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.
Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Job 27:17what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
Zechariah 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.