Luke 12:12–21

¹²for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.”

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” ¹⁴But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”^{* 15}And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”^{* 16}Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. ¹⁷And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ ¹⁸Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. ¹⁹And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’^{* 20}But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’^{* 21}So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”^*