Verse 8

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

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  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
  • Job 8:13 : 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; 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 to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided? 21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil: which while some coveted after, they have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days.
  • Job 13:16 : 16 He also shall be my salvation, for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
  • Job 15:34 : 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 That the triumph of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is not destruction for the wicked, and a strange punishment for the workers of iniquity?
  • Isa 33:14-15 : 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Mark 8:36-37 : 36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
  • Luke 9:25 : 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses himself or is cast away?