Luke 12:19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

And I will say to my soul, “‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” ’

Cross References

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Psalm 49:18

Though in their lifetime they count themselves happy —for you are praised when you do well for yourself—

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is their wisdom, but folly is the garland of fools.

Proverbs 18:11

The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 27:1

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

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

Isaiah 22:13

but instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Isaiah 5:11

Ah, you who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger in the evening to be inflamed by wine,

Isaiah 5:8

Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be like today, great beyond measure.”

Hosea 12:8

Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself; in all of my gain no offense has been found in me that would be sin.”

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?”

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his seine; for by them his portion is lavish, and his food is rich.

Luke 12:18

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

Luke 16:19

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

Luke 21:34

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly,

1 Corinthians 15:32

If with merely human hopes I fought with wild animals at Ephesus, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are 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

As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’

1 Samuel 30:16

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