Luke 12:19 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁹ then say to myself, “Life, you have many goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, rejoice.” ’

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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.'

Luke 12:19 Cross References

Job 14:1

“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed himself, And though they praise you when you do well for yourself,

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in oppression. And do not become vain in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wrongness are of no value, But righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly.

Proverbs 18:11

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.

Proverbs 23:5

Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens.

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast of tomorrow, For you do not know what a day brings forth.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart gladden 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 Elohim brings you into right-ruling.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

A man could do no better but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself in his labour! That too, I saw, was from the hand of Elohim.

Isaiah 22:13

Then see! Joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise early in the morning pursuing strong drink, who stay up late at night – wine inflames them!

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today, even much greater.”

Hosea 12:8

And Ephrayim says, “Indeed, I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself. In all my labours they shall find in me no crookedness that is sin.”

Amos 6:13

you who are rejoicing over a matter of naught, who say, “Have we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?”

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore he offers to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, for by them is his portion fat and his food is rich.

Luke 12:18

“And he said, ‘I am going to do this: pull down my storehouses and build greater, and store all my crops and my goods there,

Luke 16:19

“But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.

Luke 21:34

“And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down by gluttony, and drunkenness, and worries of this life, and that day come on you suddenly.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If, as men do, I have fought with beasts at Ephesos, of what good is it to me? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who is living in luxury is dead while she lives.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge those who are rich in this present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living Elohim, who gives us richly all for enjoyment,

2 Timothy 3:4

betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Elohim,

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury, you have fattened your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

1 Peter 4:3

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the gentiles, having walked in indecencies, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties, and abominable idolatries,

Revelation 18:7

“As much as she esteemed herself and lived riotously, so much torture and grief give to her, because in her heart she says, ‘I sit as sovereigness, and I am not a widow, and I do not see mourning at all.’

1 Samuel 30:16

And he brought him down and saw they were spread out over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Yehuḏ