Luke 12:20

God calls the man a fool, for that very night his soul is required of him, and his hoarded goods will pass to others. Death exposes the folly of living for possessions.

Cross-references · 28

• Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
• Jer 17:11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
• 1 Tim 6:7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
• Ps 39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
• Jas 4:14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
• Ps 49:17–19For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
• Luke 16:22–23And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
• Ps 52:5–7God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Matt 24:48–51But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
• Prov 28:8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
• Ps 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
• Luke 11:40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
• Prov 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• Nah 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
• Dan 5:1–6Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
• 2 Sam 13:28–29Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
• Eccl 2:18–22Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
• Dan 5:25–30And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
• Ps 78:30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
• Job 20:20–23Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
• Esth 8:1–2On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
• Esth 5:11And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
• 1 Kgs 16:9–10And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
• Eccl 5:14–16But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
• 1 Sam 25:36–38And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• Exod 16:9–10And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.

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