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 godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Jer 17:11As 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 shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
• 1 Tim 6:7For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
• Ps 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.
• Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
• Ps 49:17–19for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
• Luke 16:22–23The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
• Ps 52:5–7God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
• Matt 24:48–51But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
• Ps 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
• Luke 11:40You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
• Prov 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
• Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
• Dan 5:1–6Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
• 2 Sam 13:28–29Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
• Eccl 2:18–22I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
• Dan 5:25–30This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
• Ps 78:30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
• Job 20:20–23“Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
• Esth 8:1–2On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
• Esth 5:11Haman 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.
• 1 Kgs 16:9–10His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
• Eccl 5:14–16Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
• 1 Sam 25:36–38Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
• Exod 16:9–10Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”

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