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Luke 12:19

James Moffatt - New Testament

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

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What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God —

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.

Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my granaries and build larger ones, where I can store all my produce and my goods.




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