Luke 12:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Cross References

Esther 5:11

and Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the ministers of the king.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 49:10

When we look at the wise, they die; fool and dolt perish together and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 73:19

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

Psalm 78:30

But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 11:4

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

Proverbs 13:7

Some pretend to be rich yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor yet have 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 augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be like today, great beyond measure.”

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?”

Nahum 1:10

Like thorns they are entangled; like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

Luke 11:40

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

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!

1 Timothy 6:17

As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

1 Timothy 6:7

for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it,

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.