Psalms 49:17
For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
BSB
ASV
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.
KJV
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away. He has but a leasehold of his acres, and death ends his tenure. Through the river of death man must pass naked. Not a rag of all his raiment, not a coin of all his treasure, not a joy of all his honour, can the dying worldling carry with him. Why then fret ourselves about so fleeting a prosperity? His glory shall not descend after him. As he goes down, down, down for ever, none of his honours or possessions will follow him. Patents of nobility are invalid in the sepulchre.
They shall descend, but their glory, that which they called and counted their glory, and gloried in, shall not descend after them to lessen the disgrace of death and the grave, to bring them off in the judgment, or abate the torments of hell. Grace is glory that will ascend with us, but no earthly glory will descend after us.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Timothy 6:7For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
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saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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?’
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
Through
Luke 16:24So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’
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Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’