Luke 12:20

The English Standar Version

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required 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 servants of the king.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing[2] they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

Psalm 49:10

For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish 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

One 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.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit[1] gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Isaiah 56:12

"Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in Lo-debar,[3] who say, "Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim[4] for ourselves?"

Nahum 1:10

For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

Luke 11:40

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

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

1 Timothy 6:17

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

1 Timothy 6:7

for we brought nothing into the world, and[3] we cannot take anything out of the world.

James 4:14

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