Luke 12:19

Luke chapter 12 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

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World English Bible · 2000

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

King James Version · 1611

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

American Standard Version · 1901

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

v.18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.

v.19This passage

v.20But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Revelation 18:7
How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.
James 5:1
Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Deuteronomy 8:12
lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
Psalms 62:10
Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.