The Parable of the Rich Fool
Luke 12:18
In 9 translations
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- And 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.
- WEB
- He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
- ASV
- And 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.
- LSV
- And he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and I will build greater ones, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,
- YLT
- and 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,
- DBY
- And 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;
- DRC
- And 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.
- GNV
- And he said, This wil I do, I wil pul downe my barnes, and builde greater, and therein will I gather all my fruites, and my goods.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read τὸν (“the”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τὰ (“the”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read σῖτον (“grain”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read γενήματά (“produce”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include μου (“of mine”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: τὸν σῖτον. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τὸν σῖτον; Robinson–Pierpont read τὰ γενήματά μου.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ εἶπεν· Τοῦτο ποιήσω· καθελῶ μου τὰς ἀποθήκας καὶ μείζονας οἰκοδομήσω, καὶ συνάξω ἐκεῖ πάντα τὸν σῖτον καὶ τὰ ἀγαθά μου,
- RP2018
- Καὶ εἶπεν, Τοῦτο ποιήσω· καθελῶ μου τὰς ἀποθήκας, καὶ μείζονας οἰκοδομήσω, καὶ συνάξω ἐκεῖ πάντα τὰ γενήματά μου καὶ τὰ ἀγαθά μου.
- TR-Boyd
- Καὶ εἶπε, Τοῦτο ποιήσω· καθελῶ μου τὰς ἀποθήκας, καὶ μείζονας οἰκοδομήσω, καὶ συνάξω ἐκεῖ πάντα τὰ γενήματά μου καὶ τὰ ἀγαθά μου.γενήματά ¦ γεννήματά ELZ
- SCR1894
- και ειπεν τουτο ποιησω καθελω μου τας αποθηκας και μειζονας οικοδομησω και συναξω εκει παντα τα γενηματα μου και τα αγαθα μου
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Cross-references most cited first
- James 3:15Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
- James 4:15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
- Luke 18:6And the Lord said, “Listen to the words of the unjust judge.
- Luke 12:21This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
- Psalms 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
- Luke 18:4For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,
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