The Parable of the Rich Fool

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He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

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

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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.”