Luke 12:20

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?’

Cross References (28)

  • Job 27:8 (17)

    For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

  • Jeremiah 17:11 (16)

    Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his ric

  • 1 Timothy 6:7 (15)

    For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

  • Psalms 39:6 (11)

    Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them

  • James 4:14 (9)

    You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and th

  • Job 27:16–17 (8)

    Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

  • Psalms 49:17–19 (8)

    For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

  • Luke 16:22–23 (7)

    One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.

  • Psalms 52:5–7 (6)

    Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will upro

  • Psalms 73:19 (5)

    How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (5)

    While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant

  • Luke 11:40 (5)

    You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?

  • Matthew 24:48–51 (5)

    But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’

  • Proverbs 28:8 (5)

    He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.

  • Proverbs 11:4 (4)

    Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

  • Nahum 1:10 (4)

    For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

  • Daniel 5:1–6 (3)

    Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

  • Daniel 5:25–30 (3)

    Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

  • 2 Samuel 13:28–29 (3)

    Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike A

  • Psalms 78:30 (3)

    Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

  • Ecclesiastes 2:18–22 (3)

    I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

  • Esther 8:1–2 (2)

    That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king

  • 1 Kings 16:9–10 (2)

    However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant

  • Esther 5:11 (2)

    Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over

  • Job 20:20–23 (2)

    Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:14–16 (2)

    or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.

  • 1 Samuel 25:36–38 (1)

    When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drun

  • Exodus 16:9–10 (0)

    Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling