Luke 12:21

God's Word

That’s how it is when a person has material riches but is not rich in his relationship with God.”

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

One person pretends to be rich but has nothing. Another pretends to be poor but has great wealth.

Hosea 10:1

The people of Israel are like vines that used to produce fruit. The more fruit they produced, the more altars they built. The more their land produced, the more stone markers they set up ⌞to honor other gods⌟.

Habakkuk 2:9

“ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who uses violence to get things for his own household in order to set his nest up high and save himself from disaster.’

Luke 12:33

“Sell your material possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don’t wear out! Make a treasure for yourselves in heaven that never loses its value! In heaven thieves and moths can’t get close enough to destroy your treasure.

Luke 16:11

Therefore, if you can’t be trusted with wealth that is often used dishonestly, who will trust you with wealth that is real?

Luke 6:24

“But how horrible it will be for those who are rich. They have had their comfort.

Romans 2:5

Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.

2 Corinthians 6:10

People think we are sad although we’re always glad, that we’re beggars although we make many people spiritually rich, that we have nothing although we possess everything.

1 Timothy 6:9

But people who want to get rich keep falling into temptation. They are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires which drown them in destruction and ruin.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Didn’t God choose poor people in the world to become rich in faith and to receive the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

Revelation 2:9

I know how you are suffering, how poor you are—but you are rich. I also know that those who claim to be Jews slander you. They are the synagogue of Satan.