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Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
Luke 12:17 · Bible in Basic English
Luke 12:17 in other translations
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
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In context
14 But he said, Man, who made me a judge or a maker of decisions for you?
15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
16 And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:
17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
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