Luke 12:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’”
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“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”
King James Version · Public Domain“But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare--to whom shall they be?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 12:20 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 16:9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’”
- 1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
- 2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
- 1 Kings 16:9However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
- Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
- Esther 8:1That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
- Job 20:20Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalms 49:17For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
- Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Psalms 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- Psalms 78:30Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Ecclesiastes 2:18I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
- Ecclesiastes 5:14or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- Daniel 5:25Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
- Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
- Matthew 24:48But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
- Luke 11:40You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
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