Luke 12:19 - Revised Standard Version And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up, [enough] for many years. Take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself merrily. American Standard Version (1901) And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. Common English Bible I’ll say to myself, You have stored up plenty of goods, enough for several years. Take it easy! Eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods, stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, and be cheerful.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thy rest; eat, drink, make good cheer. |
Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,
Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
The crown of the wise is their wisdom, but folly is the garland of fools.
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him.
When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
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 the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;
and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them!
Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.”
Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself”; but all his riches can never offset the guilt he has incurred.
you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?”
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his seine; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.
And 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.
“There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches but on God who richly furnishes us with everything to enjoy.
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning. Since in her heart she says, ‘A queen I sit, I am no widow, mourning I shall never see,’
And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.