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Proverbs 10:15
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Proverbs 10:15
15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
15*The rich mans wealth is his strong citie: the destruction of the poore is their pouertie.
- Chap. 18.11.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 10:15
Possessing abundance, wealth, resources, value, fruitfulness, or fullness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
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Riches, possessions, property, or material abundance.
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Having strength, power, firmness, endurance, influence, or the ability to resist and prevail.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Lacking material means; needy, afflicted, lowly, or humble, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A state of being poor: want, indigence, or scarcity of material means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
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Open the full verse study7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
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Open the full verse study7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
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Open the full verse study20The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
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Open the full verse study12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
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Open the full verse study22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
23For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
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Open the full verse study17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
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Open the full verse study23¶ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
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Open the full verse study24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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Open the full verse study19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
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Open the full verse study24And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
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Open the full verse study1WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Open the full verse study6They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
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