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15 And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man’s life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing [a]overflowing abundance or that which is [b]over and above his needs.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 12:15 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  2. Luke 12:15 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.

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