Luke 12:21

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὕτως ὁ θησαυρίζων ἑαυτῷ καὶ μὴ εἰς θεὸν πλουτῶν.

RP2018

Οὕτως ὁ θησαυρίζων ἑαυτῷ, καὶ μὴ εἰς θεὸν πλουτῶν.

TR-Boyd

Οὕτως ὁ θησαυρίζων ἑαυτῷ, καὶ μὴ εἰς Θεὸν πλουτῶν.

SCR1894

ουτως ο θησαυριζων εαυτω και μη εις θεον πλουτων

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• Matthew 6:19–20Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where…
• Luke 12:33Sell 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 2:5Listen, 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?
• James 5:1–3Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and…
• 1 Timothy 6:18–19Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share, treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
• Revelation 2:9I 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.
• Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
• Hosea 10:1Israel 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 16:11So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?
• Luke 6:24But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
• Romans 2:5But 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.
• 2 Corinthians 6:10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

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