Luke 12:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

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  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 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.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 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!
  • Jas 4:13-15 : 13 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;' 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; 15 instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you'; 2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; 3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 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, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
  • Rev 18:7 : 7 `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;
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end `is' destruction, whose god `is' the belly, and whose glory `is' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 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; --
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
  • Isa 5:8 : 8 Wo `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!
  • Isa 5:11 : 11 Wo `to' those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 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.
  • Hos 12:8 : 8 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.'
  • Amos 6:3-6 : 3 Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence, 4 Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, 5 Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music; 6 Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And `with' chief perfumes anoint `themselves', And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.
  • Hab 1:16 : 16 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.
  • Matt 6:19-21 : 19 `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, 20 but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal, 21 for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 `And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 `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,
  • Deut 6:11-12 : 11 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; 12 `Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
  • Deut 8:12-14 : 12 lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited; 13 and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied: 14 `And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
  • Job 21:11-13 : 11 They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, 12 They lift `themselves' up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. 13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment `to' Sheol go down.
  • Job 31:24-25 : 24 If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,' 25 If I rejoice because great `is' my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,
  • Ps 49:18 : 18 For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)
  • Ps 52:5-7 : 5 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. 6 And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him. 7 `Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.
  • Prov 18:11 : 11 The wealth of the rich `is' the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
  • Ps 49:5-9 : 5 Why do I fear in days of evil? The iniquity of my supplanters doth compass me. 6 Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish. 7 A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement. 8 And precious `is' the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased -- to the age. 9 And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit. 10 For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth. 11 Their heart `is': Their houses `are' to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands. 12 And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off. 13 This their way `is' folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

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