Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
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Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
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Psalms 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
Psalms 49:7
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
Psalms 49:8
For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
Psalms 49:9
that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Psalms 49:12
But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Psalms 49:13
This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
Ecclesiastes 12:5
yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets;
Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
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Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Luke 16:22
The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 16:23
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
Luke 16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
Psalms 10:6
He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”
Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Luke 16:8
“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
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Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Psalms 82:7
Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
Psalms 52:7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Isaiah 44:5
One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s.’ Another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
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Genesis 11:4
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Isaiah 22:16
‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
2 Kings 14:10
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?”
Isaiah 14:13
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Habakkuk 2:5
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
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Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Job 27:17
he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.
Psalms 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.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
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Luke 16:20
A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
Luke 16:21
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:24
He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
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1 Samuel 15:12
Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”
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2 Samuel 15:1
After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15:4
Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
1 Kings 1:5
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
Matthew 20:21
He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
Luke 11:43
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
Luke 22:24
A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
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Psalms 64:6
They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
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Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
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