Passage Viewer

Someone in the crowd spoke to Jesus: “Master, tell my brother to share with me the family inheritance.” 

He replied: 

“My friend, who has appointed me as your judge or your attorney?” 

Then Jesus said to the people: 

“Be on your guard and avoid all kinds of greed, for even if you possess many things, they are not what give you life.”

And Jesus continued: 

“There was a rich man, and his land produced a good harvest.

He thought, ‘What shall I do, for I am short of room to store my harvest? 

Alright, I know what I shall do: I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones to store all this grain, which is my wealth. 

Then I will say to myself: My friend, you have many good things stored up for many years. Rest, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.’ 

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night, your life will be taken from you. Tell me, who will get what you have prepared?’ 

This is the fate of the one who stores up riches for himself and is not rich in the eyes of God.