16. He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced 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?’
21. So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
22. He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
23. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
24. Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!