Luke 12:18

The Passion Translation

I know what I’ll do! I’ll tear down the barns and build one massive barn to hold all my grain and goods.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

Throw them down to the ground, those who live for only this life on earth. Thrust them out of their prosperity and into their portion in eternity, leaving their wealth and wickedness behind!

Matthew 6:26

“Consider the birds—do you think they worry about their existence? They don’t plant or reap or store up food, yet your heavenly Father provides them each with food. Aren’t you much more valuable to your Father than they?

Luke 12:17

He thought, ‘What should I do now that every barn is full and I have nowhere else to store more?

Luke 12:19

Then I can just sit back, surrounded with comfort and ease. I’ll enjoy life with no worries at all.’

Luke 12:21

The same thing will happen to all those who fill up their lives with everything but God.”

Luke 12:24

Take the carefree birds as your example. Do you ever see them worry? They neither grow their own food nor put it in a storehouse for later. Yet God takes care of every one of them, feeding each of them out of the abundance of his love and goodness. Isn’t your life more precious to God than a bird? Be carefree in the care of God!

Luke 18:4

“He ignored her pleas for quite some time, but she kept asking. Eventually he said to himself, ‘This widow keeps annoying me, demanding her rights, and I’m tired of listening to her. Even though I’m not a religious man, and I don’t care about the opinions of others, I’ll get her off my back by answering her claims for justice and I’ll rule in her favor. Then she’ll leave me alone.’ ”

Luke 18:6

Jesus continued, “Did you hear what the godless judge said—that he would answer her persistent request?

James 3:15

For that has nothing to do with God’s heavenly wisdom but can best be described as the wisdom of this world, both selfish and devilish.

James 4:13

Listen, those of you who are boasting, “Today or tomorrow we’ll go to another city and spend some time and go into business and make heaps of profit!”

James 4:15

Instead you should say, “Our tomorrows are in the Lord’s hands and if he is willing we will live life to its fullest and do this or that.”