Luke 12:20

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Cross References

Esther 5:11

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Job 27:8

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

Psalm 39:6

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Psalm 49:10

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 73:19

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Psalm 78:30

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:7

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Proverbs 27:1

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

Nahum 1:10

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

Luke 11:40

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

James 4:14

Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.