Luke 12:16

New English Translation

He then told them a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

Cross References

Job 12:6

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

Job 24:23

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

Psalm 73:12

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

Psalm 73:3

For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

Ezekiel 16:49

“‘See here – this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy.

Hosea 2:8

Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold – which they used in worshiping Baal!

Matthew 13:8

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Luke 12:15

Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Luke 12:17

so he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

Acts 14:17

yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”