Job 27:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off,
when God takes away their lives?(A)
Matthew 16:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
Read full chapter
Luke 12:20-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A) 21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”(B)
Read full chapter
Job 11:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail;
all way of escape will be lost to them,
and their hope is to breathe their last.”(A)
Job 8:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless shall perish.(A)
James 5:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Warning to Rich Oppressors
5 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.(A) 3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure[a] during the last days.
Read full chapterNotas al pie
- 5.3 Or will eat your flesh, since you have stored up fire
1 Timothy 6:9-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.(A) 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
Read full chapter
Luke 9:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?(A)
Read full chapter
Mark 8:36-37
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?
Read full chapter
Matthew 23:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.[a](A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 33:14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling has seized the godless:
“Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting flames?”
15 Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly,
who despise the gain of oppression,
who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it,
who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed
and shut their eyes from looking on evil,
Job 31:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Does not calamity befall the unrighteous
and disaster the workers of iniquity?
Job 20:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 that the exulting of the wicked is short
and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?(A)
Job 15:34
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
34 For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.(A)
Job 13:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.