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Someone
in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide
the inheritance with me."
Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter
between you?" Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on
your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not
consist in the abundance of his possessions."
And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich
man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do?
I have no place to store my crops.'
"Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my
barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain
and my goods. And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of
good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and
be merry." '
"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life
will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have
prepared for yourself?'
"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for
himself but is not rich toward God."
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