Luke 12:19

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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

For

Job 14:1

Proverbs 27:1

James 4:13

Take

General references

Proverbs 11:7

Proverbs 18:11

Luke 17:27

Bible References

Soul

and houses full of all good things which thou hast not filled, and wells digged which thou hast not digged, vineyards and olive-yards which thou hast not planted, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied;

lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

Why do I fear in days of evil? The iniquity of my supplanters doth compass me.

Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.

For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

Woe to those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!

And Ephraim saith: 'Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that is sin.'

Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat.

'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

For

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

Take

And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,

Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

'As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

General references

In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.

The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.

they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;