Luke 12:21 "This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God."

◄ Luke 12:21 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God."

English Standard Version
So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

New American Standard Bible
"So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

King James Bible
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
"That's how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."

International Standard Version
That's how it is with the person who stores up treasures for himself rather than with God."

American Standard Version
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.

Darby Bible Translation
Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Young's Literal Translation
so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7
There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Luke 12:33
Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.

1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

12:13-21 Christ's kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world. Christianity does not meddle with politics; it obliges all to do justly, but wordly dominion is not founded in grace. It does not encourage expectations of worldly advantages by religion. The rewards of Christ's disciples are of another nature. Covetousness is a sin we need constantly to be warned against; for happiness and comfort do not depend on the wealth of this world. The things of the world will not satisfy the desires of a soul. Here is a parable, which shows the folly of carnal worldling while they live, and their misery when they die. The character drawn is exactly that of a prudent, worldly man, who has no grateful regard to the providence of God, nor any right thought of the uncertainty of human affairs, the worth of his soul, or the importance of eternity. How many, even among professed Christians, point out similar characters as models for imitation, and proper persons to form connexions with! We mistake if we think that thoughts are hid, and thoughts are free. When he saw a great crop upon his ground, instead of thanking God for it, or rejoicing to be able to do more good, he afflicts himself. What shall I do now? The poorest beggar in the country could not have said a more anxious word. The more men have, the more perplexity they have with it. It was folly for him to think of making no other use of his plenty, than to indulge the flesh and gratify the sensual appetites, without any thought of doing good to others. Carnal worldlings are fools; and the day is coming when God will call them by their own name, and they will call themselves so. The death of such persons is miserable in itself, and terrible to them. Thy soul shall be required. He is loth to part with it; but God shall require it, shall require an account of it, require it as a guilty soul to be punished without delay. It is the folly of most men, to mind and pursue that which is for the body and for time only, more than that for the soul and eternity.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

21. So is he, &c.—Such is a picture of his folly here, and of its awful issue.

and is not rich toward God—lives to amass and enjoy riches which terminate on self, but as to the riches of God's favor, which is life (Ps 30:5), of "precious" faith (2Pe 1:1; Jas 2:5), of good works (1Ti 6:18), of wisdom which is better than rubies (Pr 8:11)—lives and dies a beggar!