Luke 12:19

New International Version

And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’

Cross References

Job 14:1

“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

Psalm 49:18

Though while they live they count themselves blessed— and people praise you when you prosper—

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 14:24

The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.

Proverbs 18:11

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

Proverbs 23:5

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

Proverbs 27:1

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

Ecclesiastes 11:9

You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,

Isaiah 22:13

But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.”

Hosea 12:8

Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar and say, “Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?”

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.

Luke 12:18

“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.

Luke 21:34

“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Philippians 3:19

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.

1 Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

Revelation 18:7

Give her as much torment and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, ‘I sit enthroned as queen. I am not a widow; I will never mourn.’

1 Samuel 30:16

He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.