18He 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.


In Context

15 He said to them, |Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.|

16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, |The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

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

18 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.

19 I will tell my soul, |Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.|'

20 |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?'

Luke 12:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:18"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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:18And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and will build greater; and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me, and my goods.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:18And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my corn and my goods.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I deposit all my fruits and my goods.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:18and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.