1 Timothy 6:7
For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
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- Job 1:21 : 21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
- Ps 49:17 : 17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
- Eccl 5:15-16 : 15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind? 16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
- Luke 12:20-21 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? 21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
- Prov 27:24 : 24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
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17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
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11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
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21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
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