Luke 12:1-32

¹In the meantime, when many thousands of the people were gathered together, so much that they trampled on each other, he began to say to his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

²But there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, and nothing hidden that will not be known.

³So whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

⁴I say to you my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that they have no more that they can do.

⁵But I will warn you about whom to fear. Fear the one who, after he has killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear him.

⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

⁷But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear. You are more valuable than many sparrows.

⁸I say to you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God,

⁹but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

¹⁰Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him, but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.

¹¹When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you will speak in your defense, or what you will say,

¹²for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour what you should say.”

¹³Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

¹⁴Jesus said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or a mediator over you?”

¹⁵He said to them, “Watch that you keep yourselves from all greedy desires, because a person's life does not consist of the abundance of his possessions.”

¹⁶Then Jesus told them a parable, saying, “The field of a rich man yielded abundantly,

¹⁷and he reasoned with himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I do not have a place to store my crops?'

¹⁸He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all of my grain and other goods.

¹⁹I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods stored up for many years. Rest easy, eat, drink, be merry.”'

²⁰But God said to him, 'Foolish man, tonight your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

²¹That is what someone is like who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

²²Jesus said to his disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat—or about your body, what you will wear.

²³For life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.

²⁴Consider the ravens, that they do not sow or reap. They have no storeroom or barn, but God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

²⁵Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his lifespan?

²⁶If then you are not able to do such a very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

²⁷Consider the lilies—how they grow. They do not labor, neither do they spin. Yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

²⁸If God so clothes the grass in the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!

²⁹Do not look for what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious.

³⁰For all the nations of the world look for these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

³¹But seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

³²Do not fear, little flock, because your Father is very pleased to give you the kingdom.