So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Parallel translations
- KJV So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
- BSB This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
- NKJV “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
- NASB Such is the one who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich in relation to God.”
- NLT “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”
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- Matt 6:19–20“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
- Luke 12:33Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
- Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
- Jas 5:1–3Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
- 1 Tim 6:18–19that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
- Rev 2:9“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
- Hab 2:9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
- Hos 10:1Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
- Luke 6:24“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
- Rom 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
- Luke 16:11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
- 2 Cor 6:10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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