Luke 12:20

New American Bible - revised edition

But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge that broods but does not hatch are those who acquire wealth unjustly: In midlife it will desert them; in the end they are only fools.

Job 27:8

For what hope has the impious when he is cut off, when God requires his life?

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it.

Psalm 39:6

To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

James 4:14

you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Luke 11:40

You fools! Did not the maker of the outside also make the inside?

Psalm 73:19

How suddenly they are devastated; utterly undone by disaster!

Nahum 1:10

Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled, and like drunkards, they are drunk; like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever amasses wealth by interest and overcharge gathers it for the one who is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath, but justice saves from death.

Psalm 78:30

But while they still wanted more, and the food was still in their mouths,

Psalm 49:10

Will he live on forever, then, and never see the Pit of Corruption?

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but justice saves from death.

Proverbs 13:7

One acts rich but has nothing; another acts poor but has great wealth.

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what any day may bring forth.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me bring wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink, And tomorrow will be like today, or even greater.”

Amos 6:13

You who rejoice in Lodebar, and say, “Have we not, by our own strength, seized Karnaim for ourselves?”

1 Timothy 6:17

Tell the rich in the present age not to be proud and not to rely on so uncertain a thing as wealth but rather on God, who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.