Luke 12:19

Good News Translation

Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!’

Cross References

Job 14:1

We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.

Psalm 49:18

Even if someone is satisfied with this life and is praised because he is successful,

Psalm 62:10

Don't put your trust in violence; don't hope to gain anything by robbery; even if your riches increase, don't depend on them.

Proverbs 10:2

Wealth you get by dishonesty will do you no good, but honesty can save your life.

Proverbs 14:24

Wise people are rewarded with wealth, but fools are known by their foolishness.

Proverbs 18:11

Rich people, however, imagine that their wealth protects them like high, strong walls around a city.

Proverbs 23:5

Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle.

Proverbs 27:1

Never boast about tomorrow. You don't know what will happen between now and then.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Young people, enjoy your youth. Be happy while you are still young. Do what you want to do, and follow your heart's desire. But remember that God is going to judge you for whatever you do.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

The best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have earned. And yet, I realized that even this comes from God.

Isaiah 22:13

Instead, you laughed and celebrated. You killed sheep and cattle to eat, and you drank wine. You said, “We might as well eat and drink! Tomorrow we'll be dead.”

Isaiah 5:11

You are doomed! You get up early in the morning to start drinking, and you spend long evenings getting drunk.

Isaiah 5:8

You are doomed! You buy more houses and fields to add to those you already have. Soon there will be no place for anyone else to live, and you alone will live in the land.

Isaiah 56:12

‘Let's get some wine,’ these drunkards say, ‘and drink all we can hold! Tomorrow will be even better than today!’”

Hosea 12:8

‘We are rich,’ they say. ‘We've made a fortune. And no one can accuse us of getting rich dishonestly.’

Amos 6:13

You brag about capturing the town of Lodebar. You boast, “We were strong enough to take Karnaim.”

Habakkuk 1:16

They even worship their nets and offer sacrifices to them, because their nets provide them with the best of everything.

Luke 12:18

This is what I will do,’ he told himself; ‘I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods.

Luke 16:19

“There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

Luke 21:34

“Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch you

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I have, as it were, fought “wild beasts” here in Ephesus simply from human motives, what have I gained? But if the dead are not raised to life, then, as the saying goes, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Philippians 3:19

They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.

1 Timothy 5:6

But a widow who gives herself to pleasure has already died, even though she lives.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.

2 Timothy 3:4

they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God;

James 5:5

Your life here on earth has been full of luxury and pleasure. You have made yourselves fat for the day of slaughter.

1 Peter 4:3

You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.

Revelation 18:7

Give her as much suffering and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. For she keeps telling herself: ‘Here I sit, a queen! I am no widow, I will never know grief!’

1 Samuel 30:16

And he led David to them. The raiders were scattered all over the place, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the enormous amount of loot they had captured from Philistia and Judah.