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Psalm 49:10
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Psalm 49:10
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10 When we look at the wise, they die;
fool and dolt perish together
and leave their wealth to others.(A)
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, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A)
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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 everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(A)
Hebrews 9:27
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Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,(A)
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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
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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 There is a grievous ill that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owners to their hurt,(A) 14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands. 15 As they came from their mother’s womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil that they may carry away with their hands.(B) 16 This also is a grievous ill: just as they came, so shall they go, and what gain do they have from toiling for the wind?(C)
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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 Surely I am too stupid to be human;
I do not have human understanding.(A)
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, O dullest of the people;
fools, when will you be wise?(A)
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 I was stupid and ignorant;
I was like a brute beast toward you.(A)
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 Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment,(A) 7 for we brought nothing into the world, so that[a] we can take nothing out of it, 8 but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. 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.(B) 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.
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- 6.7 Other ancient authorities read world; it is certain that
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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Adam and Christ
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned(A)— 13 for sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam, who is a pattern of the one who was to come.(B)
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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 Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay,
so are all who amass wealth unjustly;
in midlife it will leave them,
and at their end they will prove to be fools.
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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Take Life as It Comes
9 All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them 2 is vanity,[a] since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.(A)
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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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