Luke 12:13-18

¹³Someone in the crowd asked Jesus, “Teacher, please tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”

¹⁴“My friend,” Jesus replied, “Who appointed me as your judge to decide how your inheritance should be divided?” He told the people,

¹⁵“Watch out, and beware of all greedy thoughts and actions, for a person's life isn't summed up by all the things they own.”

¹⁶Then he told them a story as an illustration. “Once there was a rich man who owned land that was very productive.

¹⁷The man said to himself, ‘What shall I do? I've nowhere to store my crops.

¹⁸I know what I'll do,’ he decided. ‘I'll pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and then I'll be able to store all my crops and everything I own.