Luke 12:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²¹ So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ So it is with the one who continues to lay up and hoard possessions for himself and is not rich [in his relation] to God [this is how he fares].

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Common English Bible

²¹ This is the way it will be for those who hoard things for themselves and aren’t rich toward God.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ So it is with him who stores up for himself, and is not wealthy with God."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.

Luke 12:21 Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a luxuriant vine, which putteth forth his fruit: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly pillars.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Luke 12:33

Sell that ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

Luke 16:11

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Luke 6:24

But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

Romans 2:5

but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God;

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

1 Timothy 6:9

But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

James 2:5

Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

Revelation 2:9

I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.