Luke 12:13-21

¹³Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

¹⁴Jesus said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or a mediator over you?”

¹⁵He said to them, “Watch that you keep yourselves from all greedy desires, because a person's life does not consist of the abundance of his possessions.”

¹⁶Then Jesus told them a parable, saying, “The field of a rich man yielded abundantly,

¹⁷and he reasoned with himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I do not have a place to store my crops?'

¹⁸He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all of my grain and other goods.

¹⁹I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods stored up for many years. Rest easy, eat, drink, be merry.”'

²⁰But God said to him, 'Foolish man, tonight your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

²¹That is what someone is like who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”