Verse 8
For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Referenced Verses
- Matt 16:26 : 26 ‹For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?›
- Job 8:13 : 13 So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
- Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.
- Luke 12:20-21 : 20 ‹But God said unto him,› [Thou] ‹fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?› 21 ‹So› [is] ‹he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.›
- 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Jas 5:1-3 : 1 ¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
- Job 13:16 : 16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
- Job 15:34 : 34 For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
- Job 20:5 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
- Job 31:3 : 3 [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
- Isa 33:14-15 : 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
- Matt 23:13 : 13 ¶ ‹But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in› [yourselves], ‹neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.›
- Mark 8:36-37 : 36 ‹For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?› 37 ‹Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?›
- Luke 9:25 : 25 ‹For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?›