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Proverbs 21:6
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Proverbs 21:6
6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
6*The getting of treasures by a lying tongue, is a vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.
- Chap. 10.2. and 13.11.
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Proverbs 21:6
The act of obtaining, gaining or acquiring; acquisition.
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Valuable things laid up; also to store or keep as precious.
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The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
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Emptiness, worthlessness, transience, futile desire, or excessive self-regard.
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Thrown upward suddenly or with a jerk; made to rise and fall suddenly.
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Away or backward; chiefly used in the phrase 'to and fro' for movement from one direction to another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
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Open the full verse study2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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Open the full verse study11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
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Open the full verse study21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
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Open the full verse study36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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Open the full verse study9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Open the full verse study3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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Open the full verse study14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
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Open the full verse study8He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
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Open the full verse study8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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Open the full verse study11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
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Open the full verse study31¶ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
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