Luke 12:19 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

¹⁹ Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal: ²⁰ store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrode, where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

¹⁹ There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

³² What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

¹⁹ Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

⁶ whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

⁴ they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God —

¹³ Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" — ¹⁴ you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes. ¹⁵ You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

¹ Come now, you rich men, weep and shriek over your impending miseries! ² your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days;

⁵ You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;

³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

⁷ As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'