Parallel Verses
Noyes New Testament
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Holman Bible
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
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]."
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."
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.'
Themes
Accumulation of wealth » The accumulation of, disappointing
Accumulation of wealth » Riches, earthly (select readings)
Alertness » What to be aware of
Covetousness » Covetous people
Covetousness » Instances of » The rich fool
Earthly » Refused for obedience » Are deceptive treasures
Earthly » Refused for obedience » Uprightness
Jesus Christ » Parables of » The rich fool
Parables » Parables of Christ » Rich fool
Riches » Folly and danger of trusting to--illustrated
earthly Riches » The perils of » The accumulation of, disappointing
earthly Riches » Belong to God » Are deceptive treasures
earthly Treasures » Are deceptive
earthly Treasures » Riches, earthly (select readings)
Wealth » Accumulation of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 12:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Parable Of The Rich Landowner Who Was A Fool
20 But God said to him, Fool! this night will thy soul he required of thee; and whose will those things be which thou hast laid up? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God. 22 And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for the life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on.
Cross References
Luke 12:33
Sell what ye have, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which wax not old, treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, nor moth destroyeth.
Matthew 6:19-20
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Luke 6:24
But woe to you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Luke 16:11
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Romans 2:5
But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God,
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
1 Timothy 6:18-19
that they be rich in good works, liberal in imparting, willing to communicate,
James 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren. Did not God choose the poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
James 5:1-3
Come now, ye rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Revelation 2:9
I know thy affliction and poverty, (but thou art rich,) and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.