Luke 12:19

He tells his soul to relax, eat, drink, and be merry, having goods stored for many years. He stakes his security and happiness entirely on material wealth.

Cross-references · 32

• Prov 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
• Jas 4:13–15Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
• 1 Cor 15:32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
• Matt 6:19–21Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
• Phil 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
• Isa 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
• Eccl 11:9Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
• Jas 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
• Prov 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
• Ps 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
• Isa 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
• Job 31:24–25If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
• 2 Tim 3:4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
• Rev 18:7As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
• Deut 8:12–14Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
• Jas 5:1–3Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• 1 Pet 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
• Isa 5:8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
• Prov 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
• Hos 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
• Deut 6:11–12with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
• 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
• Hab 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
• 1 Tim 5:6But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
• Ps 49:18Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—
• Amos 6:3–6You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
• Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Ps 52:5–7Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
• Ps 49:5–13Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?
• Job 21:11–13They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

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