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Better is he who is lightly esteemed but works for his own support than he who assumes honor for himself and lacks bread.

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Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant
    than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

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20 But God said to him, You fool! This very night [a] they [the messengers of God] will demand your soul of you; and all the things that you have prepared, whose will they be?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 12:20 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies: “The indefiniteness is impressive.”

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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21 So it is with the one who continues to lay up and hoard possessions for himself and is not rich [in his relation] to God [this is how he fares].

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21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”(A)

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