World English Bible
Luke 12:20
“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?”
Verse in context — Luke 12
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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.
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I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.
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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?
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So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
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He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
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