Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
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Deuteronomy 28:17A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
Job 22:18Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!
Psalms 37:35I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.
Lamentations 1:7Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.
Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
Matthew Henry on Luke 16:20-31
The Rich Man and Lazarus. 19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up… Read the whole commentary →