The Parable of the Rich Fool
13Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
16And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
The rich young man (Matthew 19:16-30)
A man came to Jesus and asked, “What good thing must I do to receive eternal life?”
Jesus told him to keep the commandments, to which the young man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to sell his possessions and give to the poor. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was very rich.
Jesus then said to his disciples “It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.” The disciples were amazed at this and Peter asked what reward they could expect for giving up everything. Jesus promised them rewards in his kingdom and concluded with a warning, “Many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first.”