Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Luke 12:20, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
- Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and a…
- 1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
- Psalms 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
- James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away…
- Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
- Psalms 49:17
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
- Luke 16:22
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
- Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the livi…
- Proverbs 28:8
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
- Psalms 73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Luke 11:40
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.