THEOSISProverbs 27:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
כִּ֤י לֹ֣א לְעוֹלָ֣ם חֹ֑סֶן וְאִם־נֵ֝֗זֶר לְד֣וֹר דור וָדֽוֹר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 23:5Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
- Isa 9:7His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
- 1 Tim 6:17Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)
- 1 Tim 6:18To do good, to be rich in good work, to give easily, to communicate to others,
- Zeph 1:18Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.
- 2 Sam 7:16And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.
- Jas 1:10And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.
- Ps 89 (88):36