Luke 12:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Luke 12:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 6:19-20
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: …
James 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Luke 12:33
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
James 5:1-3
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. …
Revelation 2:9
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,(but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Topics

Avarice Capital and Labor Care Commandments Covetousness Cupidity Discipleship Disobedience to God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-21)

We have in these verses, I. The application that was made to Christ, very unseasonably, by one of his hearers, desiring him to interpose between him and his brother in a matter that concerned the estate of the family (Luke 12:13): “ Master, speak to my brother; speak as a prophet, speak as a king, speak with authority; he is one that will have regard to what thou sayest; speak to him, that he divi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

20-21. this night, &c.--This sudden cutting short of his career is designed to express not only the folly of building securely upon the future, but of throwing one’s whole soul into what may at any moment be gone. “Thy soul shall be required of thee” is put in opposition to his own treatment of it, “I will say to my soul, Soul,” &c. whose shall those things be, &c.--Compare Psa 39:6, “He heapeth u…