Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
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Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
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Luke 12:16
And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:
Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
Luke 12:18
And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.
1 Kings 20:39
And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.
1 Kings 20:40
But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.
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Luke 12:21
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
James 5:2
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
James 5:5
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
Job 27:16
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
Job 27:17
He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
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1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
Luke 17:27
They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
Luke 17:28
In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;
Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
Luke 21:34
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
Isaiah 56:12
Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
Acts 12:23
And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
Job 20:23
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
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Psalms 52:6
The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:
Psalms 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
Psalms 49:6
Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
Psalms 49:7
Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
Psalms 49:8
(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)
Psalms 49:9
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
Psalms 49:11
The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
Psalms 49:12
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Psalms 49:13
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Psalms 49:18
Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,
Psalms 49:19
He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
Matthew 16:26
For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Mark 8:36
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
Ezekiel 7:19
They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.
Zephaniah 1:18
Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.
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Job 31:24
If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;
Job 31:25
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
Mark 10:24
And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
Proverbs 18:11
The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
Proverbs 11:28
He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.
Jeremiah 9:23
This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
Job 31:28
That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
Psalms 62:10
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
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Psalms 37:35
I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
Psalms 37:36
But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Psalms 73:18
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
Job 20:5
That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
1 Samuel 25:37
And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.
Job 21:13
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Proverbs 14:32
The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
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Proverbs 27:1
Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
James 4:13
How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:
James 4:14
When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
James 4:15
But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.
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Ecclesiastes 2:18
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
1 Timothy 6:7
For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
Proverbs 13:22
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Luke 12:33
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
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Luke 16:26
And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.
Luke 16:27
And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
Luke 16:28
For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.
Luke 16:29
But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
Luke 16:30
And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.
Luke 16:31
And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
Matthew 10:28
And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.
1 Corinthians 15:54
But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.
Revelation 20:4
And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.
Job 4:19
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
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Psalms 14:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
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Luke 16:2
And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.
Luke 10:42
Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
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1 Corinthians 15:36
Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:
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Proverbs 5:23
He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
Isaiah 17:14
In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
Jeremiah 16:4
Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?
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Psalms 78:30
But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,
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Psalms 78:31
The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.
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Luke 12:48
But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.
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