Luke 12:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.””
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“This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“so <FI>is<Fi> he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 12:21 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hosea 10:1Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.
- Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- Luke 6:24But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
- Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- Luke 16:11So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?
- Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- 2 Corinthians 6:10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
- 1 Timothy 6:18Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,
- James 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
- James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- Revelation 2:9I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
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