Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
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Psalm 49:17
When he dies, he will not be able to take it all with him his possessions will not follow him to the grave,
Psalm 17:14
from men, LORD, by your hand from men who belong to this world, whose reward is only in this life. But as for your treasured ones, may their stomachs be full, may their children have an abundance, and may they leave wealth to their offspring.
Psalm 39:6
In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth won't help in the time of judgment, but righteousness will deliver from death.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
I have observed a painful tragedy on earth: Wealth hoarded by its owner harms him,
Jeremiah 17:11
As a partridge gathers together eggs that it didn't lay, so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly. In the middle of his life it will leave him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool."
Luke 12:20
But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'
1 Timothy 6:6
Of course, godliness with contentment does bring a great profit.
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Psalm 94:11
The LORD knows the thoughts of human beings that they are futile.