for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
Cross References
Job 19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
Psalm 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads."
Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Ezekiel 21:26This is what the Lord GOD says: 'Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.
Treasury of Scripture
For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
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Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
1 Timothy 6:17,18
Charge 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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James 1:10
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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2 Samuel 7:16
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Psalm 89:36
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
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