Luke 12:13-21

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.

¹⁹Then I'll tell myself: You have enough to live on for many years, so take life easy: eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!’

²⁰But God said to him, ‘You foolish man! Your life will be demanded back this very night, and then who will get everything you've stored up?’

²¹This is what happens to people who hoard up wealth for themselves but are not rich as far as God is concerned.”