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Psalm 49:10
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Psalm 49:10
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10 For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
Psalm 49:10
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Psalm 49:10
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Luke 12:20
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Luke 12:20
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20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night (A)your soul will be required of you; (B)then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
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Luke 12:20
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Luke 12:20
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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)
Psalm 39:6
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Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they [a]busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
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- Psalm 39:6 make an uproar for nothing
Hebrews 9:27
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Hebrews 9:27
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27 (A)And as it is appointed for men to die once, (B)but after this the judgment,
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Hebrews 9:27
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Hebrews 9:27
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Jeremiah 10:8
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Jeremiah 10:8
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- Jeremiah 10:8 vain teaching
Jeremiah 10:8
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Jeremiah 10:8
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Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
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Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
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13 (A)There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
14 But those riches perish through [a]misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15 (B)As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.
16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And (C)what profit has he (D)who has labored for the wind?
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- Ecclesiastes 5:14 Lit. bad business
Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
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Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
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13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun:(A)
wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
14 or wealth lost through some misfortune,
so that when they have children
there is nothing left for them to inherit.
15 Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.(B)
They take nothing from their toil(C)
that they can carry in their hands.(D)
16 This too is a grievous evil:
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?(E)
Proverbs 30:2
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Proverbs 30:2
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2 (A)Surely I am more stupid than any man,
And do not have the understanding of a man.
Proverbs 30:2
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Proverbs 30:2
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2 Surely I am only a brute, not a man;
I do not have human understanding.
Psalm 94:8
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Psalm 94:8
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8 Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when will you be wise?
Psalm 94:8
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Psalm 94:8
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8 Take notice, you senseless ones(A) among the people;
you fools, when will you become wise?
Psalm 73:22
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Psalm 73:22
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22 (A)I was so foolish and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
Psalm 73:22
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Psalm 73:22
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1 Timothy 6:6-10
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1 Timothy 6:6-10
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6 Now godliness with (A)contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, [a]and it is (B)certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be (C)content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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- 1 Timothy 6:7 NU omits and it is certain
1 Timothy 6:6-10
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1 Timothy 6:6-10
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6 But godliness with contentment(A) is great gain.(B) 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.(C) 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.(D) 9 Those who want to get rich(E) fall into temptation and a trap(F) and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money(G) is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith(H) and pierced themselves with many griefs.(I)
Romans 5:12-14
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Romans 5:12-14
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Death in Adam, Life in Christ(A)
12 Therefore, just as (B)through one man sin entered the world, and (C)death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— 13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but (D)sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, (E)who is a type of Him who was to come.
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Romans 5:12-14
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Romans 5:12-14
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Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,(A) and death through sin,(B) and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned(C)—
13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.(D) 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam,(E) who is a pattern of the one to come.(F)
Jeremiah 17:11
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Jeremiah 17:11
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11 “As a partridge that [a]broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It (A)will leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be (B)a fool.”
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- Jeremiah 17:11 Sits on eggs
Jeremiah 17:11
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Jeremiah 17:11
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11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
and in the end they will prove to be fools.(A)
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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Death Comes to All
9 For I [a]considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: (A)that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. People know neither love nor hatred by anything they see before them. 2 (B)All things come alike to all:
One event happens to the righteous and the wicked;
To the [b]good, the clean, and the unclean;
To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.
As is the good, so is the sinner;
He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:1 Lit. put
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 LXX, Syr., Vg. good and bad,
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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A Common Destiny for All
9 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.(A) 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good,
so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.(B)
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.
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