Proverbs 13:7
One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
Cross References
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?'

Luke 12:21
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God."

Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

2 Corinthians 6:10
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

Proverbs 11:24
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

Proverbs 13:8
Riches may ransom a man's life, but a poor man hears no threat.


Treasury of Scripture
There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

is that maketh himself rich



Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.



Proverbs 12:9
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.



Luke 18:11-14
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican…

that maketh himself poor



Ecclesiastes 11:1,2
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days…



1 Corinthians 4:10,11
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised…



2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
OpenBible.com


Proverbs 13:6
Top of Page
Top of Page