World English Bible

Luke 12:19

“I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”

Verse in context — Luke 12

He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?

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

I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.

But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

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