Luke 12:21 “This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself b…”

Luke 12:21

This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.

Darby Translation

Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Young's Literal Translation

so [is] he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

Bible in Basic English

So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

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Cross references

“he”

Luke 12:33 James 5:1–3 Habakkuk 2:9 Hosea 10:1 Luke 6:24 Romans 2:5

Luke 12:33 · BSB

Sell 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.

James 5:1–3 · BSB

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

Habakkuk 2:9 · BSB

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Hosea 10:1 · BSB

Israel 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.

Luke 6:24 · BSB

But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

Romans 2:5 · BSB

But 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.

“rich”

James 2:5 Revelation 2:9 Luke 16:11 2 Corinthians 6:10 1 Timothy 6:18

James 2:5 · BSB

Listen, 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?

Revelation 2:9 · BSB

I 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.

Luke 16:11 · BSB

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

2 Corinthians 6:10 · BSB

sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

1 Timothy 6:18 · BSB

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

22Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

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