Luke 12:20-21

The Parable of the Rich Fool

²⁰ But God said to him, _b 'Fool! _z This night _c your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, _d whose will they be?' ²¹ So is the one _e who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."

1. Cross References
   Jeremiah 17:11
   Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
   Matthew 16:26
   For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 12:19
   And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.
   
3. Cross References
   Job 27:8
   For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 39:6
   Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
   Job 27:17 - 22
   He may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
   Ecclesiastes 2:18
   I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
   Ecclesiastes 2:21
   Because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
   
5. Cross References
   Matthew 6:19 - 20
   Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.