Luke 12:20

Tree of Life Version

But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay, so is one who gets wealth, unjustly. In the middle of his days it will abandon him, so at his end he will be a fool.

Job 27:8

For what hope has the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes his soul?

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into this world, So we cannot take anything out of it.

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

James 4:14

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

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.

Luke 11:40

Fools! Didn’t He who created the outside also create the inside?

Psalm 73:19

How suddenly they became a ruin— terminated, consumed by terrors.

Nahum 1:10

For even like tangled thorns they will be consumed, or like drunkards who are drunk, or like stubble that is fully dry.

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever increases his wealth by exorbitant interest, gathers it for one kinder to the poor.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches make no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Psalm 78:30

No longer a stranger from their desire, while their food was still in their mouths,

Esther 5:11

Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and how the king had promoted him and exalted him above the other officials and servants of the king.

Psalm 49:10

Will he live forever— and never see the Pit?

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, 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.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let’s get wine, let’s guzzle strong drink. Tomorrow will be like today, only even better!”

Amos 6:13

You are rejoicing for no reason, saying: “Haven’t we taken two horns for ourselves by our own strength?”

1 Timothy 6:17

Direct those who are rich in this present age not to be proud or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God—who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.