| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all,"Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9but he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"When they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Someone in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But He said to him, "Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then He said to them, "Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And He told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man was very productive. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"And he began reasoning to himself, saying, 'What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Then he said, 'This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."' |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?' |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And He said to His disciples, "For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life's span? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters? |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith! |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36"Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37"Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38"Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39"But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40"You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect." |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Peter said, "Lord, are You addressing this parable to us, or to everyone else as well?" |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time? |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43"Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44"Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45"But if that slave says in his heart, 'My master will be a long time in coming,' and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk; |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47"And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49"I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled! |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50"But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51"Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53"They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54And He was also saying to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it turns out. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55"And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, 'It will be a hot day,' and it turns out that way. |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56"You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time? |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57"And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right? |
| 58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58"For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. |
| 59[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 59"I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent." |
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