Luke 12:20 Cross References

Luke 12:20

20: "But God said to him, 'You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get it all?'

Jeremiah 17:11

  1. Like a bird that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. Sooner or later they will lose their riches and, at the end of their lives, will become poor old fools.

Psalms 39:6

  1. We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend.

Job 27:8

  1. For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?

Job 27:16

  1. "Evil people may have all the money in the world, and they may store away mounds of clothing.
  2. But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide all that money.

1 Timothy 6:7

  1. After all, we didn't bring anything with us when we came into the world, and we certainly cannot carry anything with us when we die.

Luke 11:40

  1. Fools! Didn't God make the inside as well as the outside?

Psalms 49:17

  1. For when they die, they carry nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.
  2. In this life they consider themselves fortunate, and the world loudly applauds their success.
  3. But they will die like all others before them and never again see the light of day.

Luke 16:22

  1. Finally, the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried,
  2. and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham.

James 4:14

  1. How do you know what will happen tomorrow? For your life is like the morning fog--it's here a little while, then it's gone.

Psalms 52:5

  1. But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and drag you from the land of the living.
  2. The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say,
  3. "Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness."

1 Thessalonians 5:3

  1. When people are saying, "All is well; everything is peaceful and secure," then disaster will fall upon them as suddenly as a woman's birth pains begin when her child is about to be born. And there will be no escape.

Matthew 24:48

  1. But if the servant is evil and thinks, 'My master won't be back for a while,'
  2. and begins oppressing the other servants, partying, and getting drunk--
  3. well, the master will return unannounced and unexpected.
  4. He will tear the servant apart and banish him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Psalms 73:19

  1. In an instant they are destroyed, swept away by terrors.

2 Samuel 13:28

  1. Absalom told his men, "Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don't be afraid. I'm the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!"
  2. So at Absalom's signal they murdered Amnon. Then the other sons of the king jumped on their mules and fled.

Esther 5:11

  1. and boasted to them about his great wealth and his many children. He bragged about the honors the king had given him and how he had been promoted over all the other officials and leaders.

Proverbs 11:4

  1. Riches won't help on the day of judgment, but right living is a safeguard against death.

Daniel 5:1

  1. A number of years later, King Belshazzar gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.
  2. While Belshazzar was drinking, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem, so that he and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
  3. So they brought these gold cups taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
  4. They drank toasts from them to honor their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
  5. At that very moment they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king's palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,

Psalms 78:30

  1. But before they finished eating this food they had craved, while the meat was yet in their mouths,

1 Kings 16:9

  1. Then Zimri, who commanded half of the royal chariots, made plans to kill him. One day in Tirzah, Elah was getting drunk at the home of Arza, the supervisor of the palace.
  2. Zimri walked in and struck him down and killed him. This happened in the twenty-seventh year of King Asa's reign in Judah. Then Zimri became the next king.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

  1. I am disgusted that I must leave the fruits of my hard work to others.
  2. And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? And yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work. How meaningless!
  3. So I turned in despair from hard work. It was not the answer to my search for satisfaction in this life.
  4. For though I do my work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, I must leave everything I gain to people who haven't worked to earn it. This is not only foolish but highly unfair.
  5. So what do people get for all their hard work?

Ecclesiastes 5:14

  1. or they are put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one's children.
  2. People who live only for wealth come to the end of their lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day they were born.
  3. And this, too, is a very serious problem. As people come into this world, so they depart. All their hard work is for nothing. They have been working for the wind, and everything will be swept away.

Nahum 1:10

  1. His enemies, tangled up like thorns, staggering like drunks, will be burned like dry straw in a field.

Job 20:20

  1. He was always greedy but never satisfied. Of all the things he dreamed about, nothing remains.
  2. Nothing is left after he finishes gorging himself; therefore, his prosperity will not endure.
  3. "In the midst of plenty, he will run into trouble, and disasters will destroy him.
  4. May God give him a bellyful of trouble. May God rain down his anger upon him.

Esther 8:1

  1. On that same day King Xerxes gave the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Then Mordecai was brought before the king, for Esther had told the king how they were related.
  2. The king took off his signet ring--which he had taken back from Haman--and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai to be in charge of Haman's property.

Proverbs 28:8

  1. A person who makes money by charging interest will lose it. It will end up in the hands of someone who is kind to the poor.

Daniel 5:25

  1. "This is the message that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
  2. This is what these words mean: Mene means `numbered'--God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
  3. Tekel means `weighed'--you have been weighed on the balances and have failed the test.
  4. Parsin means `divided'--your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
  5. Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

1 Samuel 25:36

  1. When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal had thrown a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything about her meeting with David until the next morning.
  2. The next morning when he was sober, she told him what had happened. As a result he had a stroke, and he lay on his bed paralyzed.
  3. About ten days later, the LORD struck him and he died.

Exodus 16:9

  1. Then Moses said to Aaron, "Say this to the entire community of Israel: `Come into the LORD's presence, and hear his reply to your complaints.'"
  2. And as Aaron spoke to the people, they looked out toward the desert. Within the guiding cloud, they could see the awesome glory of the LORD.
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