Luke 12:21
19 Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
22 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
- KJV
- So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
- WEB
- So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
- ASV
- So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
- DARBY
- Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
- BLB
- So [is] the one treasuring up for himself and not being rich toward God.”
- ÅB
- Slik er det med den som samler seg skatter og ikke er rik i Gud.
- OTB
- Slik vil det være for enhver som samler seg skatter for seg selv, men ikke er rik overfor Gud.”
- B1930
- Således er det med den som samler sig skatter og ikke er rik i Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 6:19–20
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Read in contextLuke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Read in contextJames 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
Read in contextJames 5:1–3
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Read in context1 Timothy 6:18–19
Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,
Read in contextRevelation 2:9
I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Read in contextHosea 10:1
Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.
Read in context