Luke 12:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up, [enough] for many years. Take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself merrily. 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. Common English Bible I’ll say to myself, You have stored up plenty of goods, enough for several years. Take it easy! Eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods, stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, and be cheerful.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thy rest; eat, drink, make good cheer. |
Though in their lifetime they count themselves happy —for you are praised when you do well for yourself—
Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
The crown of the wise is their wealth, but folly is the garland of fools.
The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.
When your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,
but instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger in the evening to be inflamed by wine,
Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!
“Come,” they say, “let us get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be like today, great beyond measure.”
Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich; I have gained wealth for myself; in all of my gain no offense has been found in me that would be sin.”
you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?”
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his seine, for by them his portion is lavish, and his food is rich.
Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,
If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.
As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’
When he had taken him down, they were spread out all over the ground, eating and drinking and dancing, because of the great amount of spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.