Luke 12:20

A Conservative Version

But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

1 Timothy 6:7

for we brought nothing into the world. It is clear that neither can we carry anything out,

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

James 4:14

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

Luke 11:40

Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?

Psalm 73:19

How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Nahum 1:10

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

Proverbs 28:8

He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Psalm 78:30

They were not estranged from that which they desired. Their food was yet in their mouths

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

Psalm 49:10

For he shall see it. Wise men die. The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:7

There is he who makes himself rich, yet has nothing, [and] he who makes himself poor, yet [has] great wealth.

Proverbs 27:1

Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth.

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, [they say], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

Amos 6:13

ye who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

1 Timothy 6:17

Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,