Luke 12:16

Good News Translation

Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops.

Cross References

Job 12:6

But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.

Job 24:23

God may let them live secure, but keeps an eye on them all the time.

Psalm 73:12

That is what the wicked are like. They have plenty and are always getting more.

Psalm 73:3

because I was jealous of the proud when I saw that things go well for the wicked.

Ezekiel 16:49

She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged.

Hosea 2:8

She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal.

Matthew 13:8

But some seeds fell in good soil, and the plants bore grain: some had one hundred grains, others sixty, and others thirty.”

Matthew 5:45

so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

Luke 12:15

And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be.”

Luke 12:17

He began to think to himself, ‘I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do?

Acts 14:17

But he has always given evidence of his existence by the good things he does: he gives you rain from heaven and crops at the right times; he gives you food and fills your hearts with happiness.”