è·¯åŠ ç¦éŸ³ 12:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

又說：‘我要這樣辦：我要拆掉這些倉房，建造更大的，好在那裡收藏我的一切糧食和貨物。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 说 ： 我 要 这 麽 办 ： 要 把 我 的 仓 房 拆 了 ， 另 盖 更 大 的 ， 在 那 里 好 收 藏 我 一 切 的 粮 食 和 财 物 ，

Contextual Overview

¹³ Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the property our father left us." ¹⁴ But Jesus said to him, "Who said I should judge or decide between you?" ¹⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed. Life is not measured by how much one owns." ¹⁶ Then Jesus told this story: "There was a rich man who had some land, which grew a good crop. ¹⁷ He thought to himself, ‘What will I do? I have no place to keep all my crops.' ¹⁸ Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and other goods. ¹⁹ Then I can say to myself, "I have enough good things stored to last for many years. Rest, eat, drink, and enjoy life!"' ²⁰ "But God said to him, ‘Foolish man! Tonight your life will be taken from you. So who will get those things you have prepared for yourself?' ²¹ "This is how it will be for those who store up things for themselves and are not rich toward God."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 12:21, Luke 18:4, Luke 18:6, Psalms 17:14, James 3:15, James 4:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:6 - General Deuteronomy 28:8 - storehouses Ecclesiastes 10:2 - but Isaiah 23:18 - it shall Isaiah 47:8 - I shall not

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Genesis 12:9
After this, he traveled on toward southern Canaan.

Genesis 12:10
At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.

Genesis 12:11
Just before they arrived in Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know you are a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 31:26
Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done? You cheated me and took my daughters as if you had captured them in a war.

Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them, "What have you done? Didn't you know that a man like me can learn things by signs and dreams?"

Exodus 32:21
Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you? Why did you cause them to do such a terrible sin?"

Joshua 7:19
Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, tell the truth. Confess to the Lord , the God of Israel. Tell me what you did, and don't try to hide anything from me."

1 Samuel 14:43
Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." So Jonathan told Saul, "I only tasted a little honey from the end of my stick. And must I die now?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, this will I do,.... This was the resolution he came to, and which he took up, without consulting God, or asking leave of him:

I will pull down my barns, and build greater; which was not a very wise one; for he might have let his present barns have stood, and have added new ones to them:

and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods; he ascribes the increase of his substance to himself, and reckons them his own acquisitions, and entirely owing to his diligence and industry; and therefore calls them my fruits, and my goods; and accounts them his good things, his only good things; as worldly men place all good and happiness in outward enjoyments, having no notion of spiritual and eternal good things he determines to lay up all in his barns, for his own use and service, and nothing for God and his interest, nor any thing for the poor and their relief.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will pull down my barns - The word “barns” here, properly means, “granaries,” or places exclusively designed to put wheat, barley, etc. They were commonly made, by the ancients, “underground,” where grain could be kept a long time more safe from thieves and from vermin. If it be asked why he did not let the old ones remain and build new ones, it may be answered that it would be easier to “enlarge” those already excavated in the earth than to dig new ones.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 12:18. I will pull down, &c.] The rich are full of designs concerning this life, but in general take no thought about eternity till the time that their goods and their lives are both taken away.