Luke 12:18
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 17:14 : 14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
- Luke 12:21 : 21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
- Luke 18:4 : 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
- Luke 18:6 : 6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
- Jas 3:15 : 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
- Jas 4:15 : 15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
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- Luke 12:15-173 verses88%
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.
17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
- Luke 12:19-224 verses86%
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 12:33-342 verses73%
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.
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14 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
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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 16:3-42 verses72%
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.'
- Mark 12:1-22 verses72%
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.
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6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
- Matt 6:19-202 verses71%
19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;
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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.
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4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
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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.
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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?'
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28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
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2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
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47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
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12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
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26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
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31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
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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.
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18 But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
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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.
- Matt 25:28-292 verses70%
28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.
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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."
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14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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30 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
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11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
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44 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
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12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
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48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
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17 and [lest] you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth."
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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?
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41 They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."
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12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
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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."
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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!
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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.
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13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."