Proverbs 28:22

All About Life

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To have regard for one person over another and to show favoritism is not good,
Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
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He who has an evil and envious eye hurries to be rich
And does not know that poverty will come upon him.
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He who [appropriately] reprimands a [wise] man will afterward find more favor
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Leads to Poverty

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful (right-minded) man will abound with blessings,
But he who hurries to be rich will not go unpunished.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].

Genesis 13:10-13

So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].

Genesis 19:17

When they had brought them outside, one [of the angels] said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, or stop anywhere in the entire valley; escape to the mountains [of Moab], or you will be consumed and swept away.”

Job 20:18-22

“He gives back what he has labored for and attained
And cannot swallow it [down to enjoy it];
As to the riches of his labor,
He cannot even enjoy them.

Job 27:16-17

“Though he heaps up silver like dust
And piles up clothing like clay,

Matthew 20:15

Am I not lawfully permitted to do what I choose with what is mine? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

Mark 7:22

acts of greed and covetousness, wickedness, deceit, unrestrained conduct, envy and jealousy, slander and profanity, arrogance and self-righteousness and foolishness (poor judgment).