Luke 12:13-18

¹³“Teacher,” a man in the crowd said to Jesus, “tell my brother to share the property with me.”

¹⁴But Jesus said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbiter between you?”

¹⁵And then he added, “Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of their prosperity a person's true life does not depend on what they have.”

¹⁶Then Jesus told them this parable — “There was once a rich man whose land was very fertile;

¹⁷and he began to ask himself ‘What will I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?

¹⁸This is what I will do,’ he said; ‘I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them;