¹⁸ Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods.

¹⁵ For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

¹⁵ What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”

⁶ Then the Lord said, “Learn a lesson from this unjust judge.

²¹ “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”

⁴ The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people,