Amplified Bible

Luke 12:12-20 Amplified Bible (AMP)

12. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour and moment what [you] ought to say.

13. Someone from the crowd said to Him, Master, order my brother to divide the inheritance and share it with me.

14. But He told him, Man, who has appointed Me a judge or umpire and divider over you?

15. And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man's life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs.

16. Then He told them a parable, saying, The land of a rich man was fertile and yielded plentifully.

17. And he considered and debated within himself, What shall I do? I have no place [in which] to gather together my harvest.

18. And he said, I will do this: I will pull down my storehouses and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain or produce and my goods.

19. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up, [enough] for many years. Take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself merrily.

20. But God said to him, You fool! This very night they [the messengers of God] will demand your soul of you; and all the things that you have prepared, whose will they be? [Job 27:8; Jer. 17:11.]