Luke 12:20

New International Version

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:11

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.

Job 27:8

For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

Psalm 39:6

“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

James 4:14

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Luke 11:40

You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?

Psalm 73:19

How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

Nahum 1:10

They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Psalm 78:30

But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths,

Esther 5:11

Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

Psalm 49:10

For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:7

One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Proverbs 27:1

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

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.”

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar and say, “Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?”

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.