Luke 12:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Soul

Matthew 6:19

1 Timothy 6:17

James 5:1

For

James 4:13

Take

General references

Luke 17:27

Bible References

Soul

"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.

Continue charging the rich of this world to stop being haughty and not to fix their hope on a thing so uncertain as riches, but on God who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment;

Come now, you rich people, weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are sure to overtake you.

For

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money,"

Take

"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in dazzling luxury every day.

But ever be on your guard, so that your hearts may not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries, and that day, like a trap, catch you unawares.

If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."

Their doom is destruction, their stomach is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are feeding on earthly things,

while a widow who gives herself up to luxury is really dead though still alive.

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God,

Here on earth you have lived in luxury and self-indulgence; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,

To the same degree in which she has lived in splendor and luxury, give her torture and tears. Because she is always boasting in her heart, 'I sit enthroned as queen; I am not a widow, I shall never experience any sorrow' --

General references

People continued to eat, drink, marry, and be married, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all.