Parallel Verses

An Understandable Version

This is [the way it will be with] the person who stores up treasures for himself, and [yet] is not rich toward God [i.e., does place enough importance on spiritual things]."

New American Standard Bible

So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

“That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

International Standard Version

That's how it is with the person who stores up treasures for himself rather than with God."

A Conservative Version

So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

So it is for the one who continues to store up and hoard possessions for himself, and is not rich [in his relationship] toward God.”

Anderson New Testament

So is he that lays up treasure for him self, 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.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

such is he, who heaps up his treasure here, and makes no provision for another world.

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

So is every one laying up treasure for himself, and not rich toward God.

Goodspeed New Testament

That is the way with the man who lays up money for himself, and is not rich with God."

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

So [is] the one who stores up treasure for himself, and who is not rich toward God!"

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

So is it with him that gathered riches, and is not rich in God."

Moffatt New Testament

So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

Montgomery New Testament

"So is he that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich toward God."

NET Bible

So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God."

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

So is every one that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich in God.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Just such is every one who heapeth up treasure for self, and is not rich towards God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

So it is with those who lay by wealth for themselves and are not rich to the glory of God."

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

"So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God."

Williams New Testament

So it is with the man who continues to pile up possessions for himself, and is not rich in God."

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

So is he who is laying up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

Worsley New Testament

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So
οὕτω 
Houto 
Usage: 146

is he that layeth up treasure
θησαυρίζω 
thesaurizo 
Usage: 5

ἑαυτοῦ 
heautou 
Usage: 249

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

is
πλουτέω 
Plouteo 
be rich, be made rich, rich, wax rich, be increased with goods
Usage: 9

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

πλουτέω 
Plouteo 
be rich, be made rich, rich, wax rich, be increased with goods
Usage: 9

εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

References

American

Fausets

Context Readings

The Parable Of The Rich Landowner Who Was A Fool

20 But God said to him, 'You fool! Tonight your life will be taken away from you. And [then] who will get the things you have stored up [for yourself]?' 21 This is [the way it will be with] the person who stores up treasures for himself, and [yet] is not rich toward God [i.e., does place enough importance on spiritual things]." 22 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "So, I tell you, do not worry about [the material things of] your life, [such as] what you will eat or what you will wear on your body.


Cross References

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions and give [the money] to poor people; provide yourselves with money belts that do not wear out [i.e., from the constant use of carrying much money all the time, instead of investing it in others' needs]. [Then you will possess] an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief can approach, nor moth destroy.

Matthew 6:19-20

"Do not store your valuables [here] on earth, where moths can eat them and where rust can corrode them, and where burglars can break in and steal [them].

Luke 6:24

But it is too bad for you rich people because you have [already] received [all] the comforts [you are going to get].

Luke 16:11

If therefore you have not been trustworthy in worldly wealth, who will put you in charge of the true [spiritual] riches?

Romans 2:5

But your stubbornness and refusal to repent are storing up wrath [i.e., punishment] for yourselves, [to be experienced] on the Day of Wrath [i.e., the day of judgment] when God's just judgment will be revealed.

2 Corinthians 6:10

sad and yet always joyous; poor and yet making many people [spiritually] rich; destitute and yet possessing everything.

1 Timothy 6:18-19

[Urge them] to do what is good, to be rich in [the practice of] good deeds, to be generous and willing to share [with others].

James 2:5

Listen, my dearly loved brothers; did not God choose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be wealthy in faith and to inherit the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

James 5:1-3

Come on now, you rich people, cry and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.

Revelation 2:9

I know [about] your suffering and your poverty (but you are [really] rich), and the slander of those who say they are Jews, though they [really] are not, but are a synagogue of Satan [i.e., they claimed to be an assembly of God's people, but in reality were serving Satan].

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