19 And I will say to my soul, j“Soul, you have ample goods laid up kfor many years; relax, leat, drink, be merry.”’
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Psalm 49:18
For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed—
and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—
Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring.
James 4:13–15
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
Isaiah 22:13
and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
Isaiah 56:12
“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
and tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”
1 Corinthians 15:32
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
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