Luke 12:20

New American Standard Bible 2020

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is demanded of you; and as for all that you have prepared, who will own it now?’

Cross References

Esther 5:11

Then Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and his many sons, and every occasion on which the king had honored him and how he had promoted him above the officials and servants of the king.

Job 27:8

“For what is the hope of the godless when he makes an end of life, When God requires his life?

Psalm 39:6

“Certainly every person walks around as a fleeting shadow; They certainly make an uproar for nothing; He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

Psalm 49:10

¶For he sees that even wise people die; The foolish and the stupid alike perish And leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 73:19

How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

Psalm 78:30

Yet before they had abandoned their longing, While their food was in their mouths,

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten gains do not benefit, But righteousness rescues from death.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not benefit on the day of wrath, But righteousness rescues from death.

Proverbs 13:7

There is one who pretends to be rich but has nothing; Another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth.

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring.

Proverbs 28:8

One who increases his wealth by interest of any kind, Collects it for one who is gracious to the poor.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let’s get wine, and let’s drink heavily of intoxicating drink; And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.”

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is a person who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the middle of his days it will abandon him, And in the end he will be a fool.”

Amos 6:13

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

Nahum 1:10

Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed Like stubble completely dried up.

Luke 11:40

You foolish ones, did He who made the outside not make the inside also?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

1 Timothy 6:17

Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

1 Timothy 6:7

For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it, either.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.