Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?'
Cross References
Job 27:8
For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Psalm 49:10
For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

Proverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 13:7
One pretends to be rich, but 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 me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!"

Jeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.

Amos 6:13
you who rejoice over Lo-debar and say, 'Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?'

Luke 11:40
You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?

1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God.

Luke 16:22, 23
One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. And the rich man also died and was buried. . . .

Exodus 16:9, 10
Then Moses said to Aaron, "Tell the whole congregation of Israel, 'Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.'" . . .

1 Samuel 25:36-38
When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light. . . .

2 Samuel 13:28, 29
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, "Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!" . . .

1 Kings 16:9, 10
However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household in Tirzah, Elah's servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. . . .

Job 20:20-23
Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure. . . .

Job 27:8
For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Psalm 73:19
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Psalm 78:30
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Daniel 5:1-6, 25-30
Many years later King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them. . . .

Nahum 1:10
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard--like stubble that is fully dry.

Matthew 24:48-51
But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, 'My master will be away a long time.' . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, "Peace and security, " destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Thou fool.

Luke 11:40
You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?

Jeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.

James 4:14
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.

thy soul shall be required of thee.

Esther 5:11
Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

Esther 8:1, 2
That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king's presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her. . . .

Job 27:16, 17
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, . . .

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Psalm 49:17-19
For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down. . . .

Psalm 52:5-7
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah . . .

Proverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for another, who will be kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-22
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:14-16
or wealth lost in a bad venture, so that when he has a son there is nothing to pass on. . . .

Jeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.

Daniel 5:28
PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and neither can we carry anything out of it.

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