Luke 12:1-28 ▼

1 In the meantime, myriads of the multitude having gathered together, So that they trode on one another, He began to speak to His disciples first; Take heed unto yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

2 But there is nothing hidden, which shall not be revealed: and concealed, that shall not be made known.

3 Therefore so many things as you spoke in the darkness shall be heard in the light; and whatsoever you spoke in the ear in the secret chambers shall be proclaimed upon the houses.

4 And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things, having nothing more to do.

5 But I will show you whom you must fear: Fear him, who after he kills has power to cast into hell. Yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? and one of them is not forgotten before God.

7 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are more important than many sparrows.

8 But I say unto you, that every one who may confess me before the people, the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God.

9 But the one denying me before the people will be denied before the angels of God.

10 And every one who shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him having blasphemed against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven.

11 But when they may carry you into the synagogues, and tribunals, and authorities; do not be solicitous as to what you may apologize, or what you may say:

12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour the things which it behooveth you to speak.

13 And a certain one from the multitude said to Him, Teacher, speak to my brother, to divide the inheritance with me.

14 And He said to him; Man, who established me judge or a divider over you?

15 And He said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness: because his life is not in that which aboundeth to any one, from those things belonging to him.

16 He spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man was very productive:

17 and he was reasoning in himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no place where I shall store my fruits?

18 And he said, I will do this: I will take down my barns, and build greater, and there I will gather all my fruits and my goods.

19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

20 But God said to him, Thou fool, this night they are demanding thy soul from thee; and to whom shall those things which thou hast prepared, belong?

21 So is every one laying up treasure for himself, and not rich toward God.

22 And He spoke to His disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul, what you may eat; nor for your body, what you may put on.

23 The soul is more than food, and the body more than raiment.

24 Observe the ravens, because they neither sow nor reap; to which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them; are you not much better than the fowls?

25 And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence?

26 If then you are powerless in the smallest matter, why are you solicitous about other things?

27 Observe the lilies, how they toil not, neither do they spin: and I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.

28 And if God so clothes the verdure flourishing in the fields to-day, and to-morrow cast into the oven; how much more are you, O ye of little faith?