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 27:1Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
• Jas 4:13–15Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
• 1 Cor 15:32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
• Matt 6:19–21“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
• Phil 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
• Isa 5:11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
• Eccl 11:9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and 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 into judgment.
• Jas 5:5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
• Prov 18:11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
• Ps 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
• Isa 22:13and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
• Job 31:24–25“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
• 2 Tim 3:4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
• Rev 18:7However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
• Deut 8:12–14lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
• Jas 5:1–3Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
• 1 Pet 4:3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
• Isa 5:8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
• Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
• Hos 12:8Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
• Deut 6:11–12and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Hab 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
• 1 Tim 5:6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
• Ps 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul — and men praise you when you do well for yourself —
• Amos 6:3–6Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Luke 16:19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Ps 52:5–7God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Ps 49:5–13Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
• Job 21:11–13They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

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