Luke 12:18-19
Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods. Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Luke 12 · Words of Christ are set in red.
4 songs meet this passage
“If you f**k with winning, put your lighters to the sky”
Congratulations (feat. Quavo) · Post Malone
strains against Luke 12:18-19
The song treats wealth and winning as the measure of a life well-lived, the very posture Jesus warns against in the parable of the rich fool.
24K Magic · Bruno Mars
strains against Luke 12:15-21
The song revels in careless, flashy spending as the measure of a good life, the opposite of Jesus's warning about storing up treasure for yourself.
Dust In the Wind · Kansas
resonates with Luke 12:16-21
The parable of the rich fool warns that wealth cannot purchase more life, the same truth the lyric states plainly.
“ich zahle gar nix”
ich zahle gar nix · Haftbefehl
strains against Luke 12:19-20
The boast of never paying, living large without cost, echoes the rich fool's false security in accumulated goods right before it's taken from him.
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