Luke 12:17

World English Bible (2000)

He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

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  • Eccl 11:2 : 2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don't know what evil will be on the earth.
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
  • Matt 5:42 : 42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
  • Luke 3:11 : 11 He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."
  • Luke 10:25 : 25 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
  • Luke 12:22 : 22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
  • Luke 12:29 : 29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
  • Luke 14:13-14 : 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; 14 and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."
  • Luke 16:3 : 3 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
  • Luke 16:9 : 9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
  • Luke 18:22 : 22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
  • Luke 19:17 : 17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
  • Acts 16:30 : 30 and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
  • 2 Cor 9:6-9 : 6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. 9 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever." 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; 11 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God; 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge 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;
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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  • Luke 12:18-22
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    18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

    19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

    20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

    21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

    22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

  • Luke 12:15-16
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    15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

    16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

  • Luke 16:1-5
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    1 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

    2 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

    3 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

    4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'

    5 Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

  • Mark 12:1-2
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    73%

    1 He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

    2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

  • Luke 15:16-17
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    16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

    17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

  • Luke 13:6-9
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    6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

    7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

    8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.

    9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • Mark 12:7
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    7 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

  • Luke 18:4
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    4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

  • Matt 25:18
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    18 But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

  • Matt 13:12
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    12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

  • Matt 25:26
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    26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

  • Luke 20:14
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    14 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

  • Mark 4:25
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    25 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

  • Luke 12:33-34
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    33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

    34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  • Luke 20:9
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    9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

  • Luke 19:12
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    12 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

  • Mark 12:9
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    9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

  • Luke 19:21-23
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    21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

    22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

    23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'

  • Matt 21:33-34
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    33 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

    34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

  • Luke 12:42
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    42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

  • Luke 12:25
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    25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

  • John 12:6
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    6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

  • Matt 13:22
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    22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

  • Luke 17:7
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    7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

  • Luke 15:14
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    14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

  • Matt 25:24
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    24 "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

  • Luke 14:7
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    7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

  • Luke 8:18
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    18 Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."

  • Matt 20:15
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    15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

  • Luke 16:12
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    12 If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

  • 2 Sam 12:2
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    2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

  • Mark 8:16
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    16 They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no bread."