Luke 12:13-21 NRSVUE

13  Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to

divide the family inheritance with me.”  14  But he said to him,

“Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”  15  And

he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of

greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of

possessions.”  16  Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich

man produced abundantly.  17  And he thought to himself, ‘What

should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’  18  Then he

said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger

ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.  19  And I

will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many

years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’  20  But God said to him, ‘You

fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the

things you have prepared, whose will they be?’  21  So it is with

those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich

toward God.”

Colossians 3:1-3, 8-11 NRSVUE

3 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are

above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  2  Set your

minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on

earth,  3  for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in

God.  8  But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath,

malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.  9  Do not

lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self

with its practices  10  and have clothed yourselves with the new

self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the

image of its creator.  11  In that renewal [e]  there is no longer Greek

and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian,

enslaved and free, but Christ is all and in all!