Luke 12:19

Modern English Version

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take rest. Eat, drink, and be merry.’

Cross References

Job 14:1

“Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lives he blesses himself — for men will praise you when you do well for yourself—

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression; put no vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

Proverbs 18:11

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

Proverbs 23:5

Will you let your eyes fly after that which is not? For such wealth certainly sprouts wings, flying away like an eagle to the heavens.

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink, and make his life see the good in his labor. This I have seen is from the hand of God.

Isaiah 22:13

Behold, there is joy and gladness, slaying of oxen and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink; who continue late in the evening until wine inflames them!

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more space where they may live alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as today, only more so.”

Hosea 12:8

Ephraim said, “Yet I am rich, I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they shall find no offense in me that would be sin.”

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in Lo Debar, who say, “Is it not by our own strength that we captured Karnaim?”

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore they sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their dragnet; for by them their portion is extravagant, and their food plentiful.

Luke 12:18

“Then he said, ‘This I will do: I will pull down my barns and build greater ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.

Luke 21:34

“Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become burdened by excessiveness and drunkenness and anxieties of life, and that Day comes on you unexpectedly.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me if the dead do not rise? “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Philippians 3:19

Their destination is destruction, their god is their appetite, their glory is in their shame, their minds are set on earthly things.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this world that they not be conceited, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who richly gives us all things to enjoy.

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

James 5:5

You have lived in pleasure on the earth and have been wayward. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

1 Peter 4:3

For in earlier times of our lives it may have sufficed us to do what the Gentiles like to do, when we walked in immorality: lusts, drunkenness, carousing, debauchery, and abominable idolatries.

Revelation 18:7

To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her torment and sorrow; for in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and will see no sorrow.’

1 Samuel 30:16

When he brought him down, behold, they were spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.