Luke 12:13-36

¹³And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, 'Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.'

¹⁴And he said to him, 'Man, who set me a judge or a divider over you?'

¹⁵And he said unto them, 'Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

¹⁶And he spake a simile unto them, saying, 'Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

¹⁷and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?

¹⁸and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

¹⁹and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

²⁰'And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare — to whom shall they be?

²¹so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

²²And he said unto his disciples, 'Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

²³the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.

²⁴'Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

²⁵and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

²⁶If, then, ye are not able for the least — why for the rest are ye anxious?

²⁷'Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these;

²⁸and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you — ye of little faith?

²⁹'And ye — seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

³⁰for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

³¹but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

³²'Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

³³sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

³⁴for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.

³⁵'Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

³⁶and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.