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Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!' </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/luke/12-19.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/luke/12-19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/luke/12-19.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/1.htm">Luke</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/12.htm">Chapter 12</a> > Verse 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/12-18.htm" title="Luke 12:18">◄</a> Luke 12:19 <a href="../luke/12-20.htm" title="Luke 12:20">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/luke/12.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/luke/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Then I will say to myself, Lucky man! You have all the good things you need for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!' <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/luke/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/luke/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then I'll say to myself, 'You have stored up enough good things to last for years to come. Live it up! Eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.'" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/luke/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!” ’<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/luke/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.</p><p class="hdg">Soul.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/6-11.htm">Deuteronomy 6:11,12</a> Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/8-12.htm">Deuteronomy 8:12-14</a> Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/31-24.htm">Job 31:24,25</a> If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/49-5.htm">Psalm 49:5-13,18</a> Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/52-5.htm">Psalm 52:5-7</a> Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/62-10.htm">Psalm 62:10</a> Trust not in iniquity, and covet not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/18-11.htm">Proverbs 18:11</a> The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing him about.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/23-5.htm">Proverbs 23:5</a> Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-8.htm">Isaiah 5:8</a> Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/12-8.htm">Hosea 12:8</a> And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../habakkuk/1-16.htm">Habakkuk 1:16</a> Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/6-19.htm">Matthew 6:19-21</a> Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-17.htm">1 Timothy 6:17</a> Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/5-1.htm">James 5:1-3</a> Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . . </p><p class="hdg">for.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/14-1.htm">Job 14:1</a> Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/27-1.htm">Proverbs 27:1</a> Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/4-13.htm">James 4:13-15</a> But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. . . . </p><p class="hdg">take.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/16-19.htm">Luke 16:19</a> There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/21-34.htm">Luke 21:34</a> And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/21-11.htm">Job 21:11-13</a> Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/11-9.htm">Ecclesiastes 11:9</a> Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-11.htm">Isaiah 5:11</a> Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/22-13.htm">Isaiah 22:13</a> And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/6-3.htm">Amos 6:3-6</a> You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity; . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/15-32.htm">1 Corinthians 15:32</a> If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/3-19.htm">Philippians 3:19</a> Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/5-6.htm">1 Timothy 5:6</a> For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/3-4.htm">2 Timothy 3:4</a> Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/5-5.htm">James 5:5</a> You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/4-3.htm">1 Peter 4:3</a> For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/18-7.htm">Revelation 18:7</a> As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/luke/12.htm">The Parable of the Rich Fool</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">18</span>And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me and my goods. <span class="reftext">19</span><span class="highl">And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.</span> <span class="reftext">20</span>But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_samuel/30-16.htm">1 Samuel 30:16</a></span><br />And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/49-18.htm">Psalm 49:18</a></span><br />For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/10-2.htm">Proverbs 10:2</a></span><br />The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/27-1.htm">Proverbs 27:1</a></span><br />Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to come may bring forth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-24.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:24</a></span><br />Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/11-9.htm">Ecclesiastes 11:9</a></span><br />Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/56-12.htm">Isaiah 56:12</a></span><br />Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/6-13.htm">Amos 6:13</a></span><br />Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/12-18.htm">Luke 12:18</a></span><br />And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me and my goods.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/15-32.htm">1 Corinthians 15:32</a></span><br />If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? 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