Luke 12:21
Good News Translation
And Jesus concluded, "This is how it is with those who pile up riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight."

New Revised Standard Version
So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”

Contemporary English Version
"This is what happens to people who store up everything for themselves, but are poor in the sight of God."

New American Bible
Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.

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Luke 12:33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

Luke 6:24 But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.

Hosea 10:1 Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols.

Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil.

Matthew 6:19,20 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. . . .

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

1 Timothy 6:19 To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

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Luke 16:11 If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

1 Timothy 6:18,19 To do good, to be rich in good work, to give easily, to communicate to others, . . .

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

Revelation 2:9 I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Context
The Parable of the Rich Fool
20But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? 21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God. 22And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on.…
Cross References
Proverbs 13:7
One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Matthew 6:19
Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.

Luke 12:33
Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

1 Timothy 6:9
For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

James 2:5
Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

Luke 12:20
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