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But if you are in a hurry to get rich, you are going to be punished. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/proverbs/28-20.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/proverbs/28-20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/proverbs/28-20.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/proverbs/1.htm">Proverbs</a> > <a href="/gntd/proverbs/28.htm">Chapter 28</a> > Verse 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/28-19.htm" title="Proverbs 28:19">◄</a> Proverbs 28:20 <a href="../proverbs/28-21.htm" title="Proverbs 28:21">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/proverbs/28.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/proverbs/28.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Honest people will lead a full, happy life. But if you are in a hurry to get rich, you are going to be punished. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/28.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/proverbs/28.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />God blesses his loyal people, but punishes all who want to get rich quick. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/28.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The trustworthy will be richly blessed; but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/28.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.</p><p class="hdg">faithful</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/20-6.htm">Proverbs 20:6</a> Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/22-14.htm">1 Samuel 22:14</a> And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son in law, and goeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/7-2.htm">Nehemiah 7:2</a> I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of Jerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God above the rest,)</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/101-6.htm">Psalm 101:6</a> My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/112-4.htm">Psalm 112:4-9</a> To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/12-42.htm">Luke 12:42</a> And the Lord said: Who thinkest thou is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/16-1.htm">Luke 16:1,10-12</a> And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-2.htm">1 Corinthians 4:2-5</a> Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found faithful. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/2-10.htm">Revelation 2:10,13</a> Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life. . . . </p><p class="hdg">but</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/28-22.htm">Proverbs 28:22</a> A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/13-11.htm">Proverbs 13:11</a> Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/20-21.htm">Proverbs 20:21</a> The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/23-4.htm">Proverbs 23:4</a> Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/5-20.htm">2 Kings 5:20-27</a> But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-9.htm">1 Timothy 6:9,10</a> For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. . . . </p><p class="hdg">innocent or unpunished</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/17-5.htm">Proverbs 17:5</a> He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/28.htm">The Boldness of the Righteous</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">19</span>He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty. <span class="reftext">20</span><span class="highl">A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.</span><span class="reftext">21</span>He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/24-45.htm">Matthew 24:45</a></span><br />Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/25-21.htm">Matthew 25:21</a></span><br />His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-9.htm">1 Timothy 6:9</a></span><br />For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/10-6.htm">Proverbs 10:6</a></span><br />The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the wicked shall rot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/19-2.htm">Proverbs 19:2</a></span><br />Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/20-21.htm">Proverbs 20:21</a></span><br />The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/23-4.htm">Proverbs 23:4</a></span><br />Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/28-22.htm">Proverbs 28:22</a></span><br />A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/72-7.htm">Abound</a> <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-3.htm">Aboundeth</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-9.htm">Acquitted</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-8.htm">Attempting</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-14.htm">Blessed</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-14.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-6.htm">Blessings</a> <a href="/psalms/56-6.htm">Eager</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-16.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-6.htm">Faithful</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-11.htm">Free</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-10.htm">Good</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-16.htm">Great</a> <a href="/proverbs/25-8.htm">Haste</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-23.htm">Hastens</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-18.htm">Hasting</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-24.htm">Innocent</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-8.htm">Makes</a> <a href="/proverbs/23-5.htm">Maketh</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-11.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/proverbs/22-15.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-21.htm">Quickly</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-11.htm">Rich</a> <a href="/proverbs/13-4.htm">Richly</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-7.htm">Stedfast</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-9.htm">Unpunished</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-11.htm">Wealth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/5-7.htm">Abound</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-22.htm">Aboundeth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-12.htm">Acquitted</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-13.htm">Attempting</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-18.htm">Blessed</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-11.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/hosea/3-5.htm">Blessings</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-22.htm">Eager</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-25.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-26.htm">Faithful</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-12.htm">Free</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-21.htm">Good</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-27.htm">Great</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-20.htm">Haste</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-22.htm">Hastens</a> <a href="/songs/8-5.htm">Hasting</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-23.htm">Innocent</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-3.htm">Makes</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-17.htm">Maketh</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-16.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/8-11.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-6.htm">Quickly</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-22.htm">Rich</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-10.htm">Richly</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-9.htm">Stedfast</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-29.htm">Unpunished</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-22.htm">Wealth</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/proverbs/28-20.htm">Proverbs 28:20 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: A abound be blessed blessings but eager faithful get go haste he makes man not one rich richly to unpunished who will with<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/28-20.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man is rich with blessings (Prov. 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