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Luke 12:19

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19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

KJV

19 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.

BSB

19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

FBV

19Then I'll tell myself: You have enough to live on for many years, so take life easy: eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!’

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Extra References

Proverbs 27:1

1Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.


James 4:13-15

13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”


1 Corinthians 15:32

32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, thenlet’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”


Matthew 6:19-21

19“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; 21for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.


Ecclesiastes 11:9

9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.


Isaiah 5:11

11[+] Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!


Philippians 3:19

19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.


James 5:5

5[+] You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.


Proverbs 18:11

11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.


Psalms 62:10

10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.