Luke 16:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

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  • John 13:23 : 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.
  • Ps 49:6-9 : 6 Those who trust in their wealth, And boast in the multitude of their riches-- 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give God a ransom for him. 8 For the redemption of their life is costly, No payment is ever enough, 9 That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption. 10 For he sees that wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless perish, And leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, And their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
  • Ps 49:16-19 : 16 Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased. 17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- And men praise you when you do well for yourself-- 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
  • Mark 8:36 : 36 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
  • Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. 20 As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
  • Ps 91:11-12 : 11 For he will give his angels charge over you, To guard you in all your ways. 12 They will bear you up in their hands, So that you won't dash your foot against a stone.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
  • Isa 14:18 : 18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
  • Isa 22:16 : 16 "What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. 2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
  • Matt 8:11 : 11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
  • Matt 13:38-43 : 38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel are the children of the evil one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40 As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 24:31 : 31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
  • John 21:20 : 20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray You?"
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Aren't they all ministering spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
  • 2 Kgs 9:34-35 : 34 When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter. 35 They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
  • Job 3:13-19 : 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, 14 With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; 15 Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. 19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
  • Job 21:13 : 13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
  • Job 21:30-32 : 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done? 32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

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