Luke 12:20-21
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’ This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Luke 12 · Words of Christ are set in red.
4 songs meet this passage
“It slips away and all your money won't another minute buy”
Dust In the Wind · Kansas
resonates with Luke 12:20-21
Jesus' parable of the rich fool warns that wealth cannot purchase one more moment of life, exactly the song's point.
24K Magic · Bruno Mars
strains against Luke 12:15-21
The song revels in careless, flashy spending as the measure of a good life, the opposite of Jesus's warning about storing up treasure for yourself.
Don't Let Me Fall · B.o.B
strains against Luke 12:19-20
The rich fool also tried to steady his soul with pleasure and plenty; the parable warns that this kind of ease doesn't actually secure a life.
“ich zahle gar nix”
ich zahle gar nix · Haftbefehl
strains against Luke 12:19-20
The boast of never paying, living large without cost, echoes the rich fool's false security in accumulated goods right before it's taken from him.