Proverbs 10:2

 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing:

Some would look at this illustration and think it belongs to another, “less civilized” era.  Mankind has not changed, just the dressings have.  There are more that will deceive and take advantage of others, than there are that won’t.  We all need to be very circumspect in this matter.  Even pocketing extra change mistakenly given to you by a cashier constitutes as a “treasure of wickedness.” There may be some people who seem to be “getting away with it,” but they will be judged.  Perhaps not in this life, but definitely in the next.

but righteousness delivereth from death.

Not deliverance physical death, perhaps, but deliverance from eternal death in the Lake of Fire – yes.  Only those who have admitted their sinfulness, and turned towards Jesus Christ and asked Him into their hearts are considered righteous.  In God’s eyes there are only two kinds of people in the world – sheep and goats – or – saved and unsaved.

Matthew 25:31-33

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory:

³² And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

³³ And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.