Job 27:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

For what hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped vp riches, if God take away his soule?

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  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what shall it profite a man though he should winne the whole worlde, if hee lose his owne soule? Or what shall a man giue for recompence of his soule?
  • Job 8:13 : 13 So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
  • Luke 12:20-21 : 20 But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule fro thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided? 21 So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction. 10 For the desire of money is the roote of all euill, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pearced themselues through with many sorowes.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Go to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten. 3 Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes.
  • Job 13:16 : 16 He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
  • Job 15:34 : 34 For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is not destruction to the wicked & strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
  • Isa 33:14-15 : 14 The sinners in Zion are afraide: a feare is come vpon the hypocrites: who among vs shall dwel with the deuouring fire? who among vs shall dwell with the euerlasting burnings? 15 Hee that walketh in iustice, and speaketh righteous things, refusing gaine of oppression, shaking his handes from taking of gifts, stopping his eares from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing euill.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo therefore be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites, because ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: for ye your selues go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.
  • Mark 8:36-37 : 36 For what shall it profite a man, though he should winne the whole world, if he lose his soule? 37 Or what exchange shall a man giue for his soule?
  • Luke 9:25 : 25 For what auantageth it a man, if he win the whole worlde, and destroy himselfe, or lose himselfe?

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