And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
from men by your hand, O Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.
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