Luke 12:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ 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)

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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.

Luke 12:19 Cross References

Job 14:1

Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed his soul, And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is their riches: But the folly of fools is only folly.

Proverbs 18:11

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as an high wall in his own imagination.

Proverbs 23:5

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

Proverbs 27:1

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Isaiah 22:13

and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

Isaiah 5:11

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

Isaiah 5:8

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labours they shall find in me none iniquity that were sin.

Amos 6:13

ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his meat plenteous.

Luke 12:18

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

Luke 16:19

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

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 tomorrow we die.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

James 5:5

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

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:

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.

1 Samuel 30:16

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and feasting, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.