Luke 12:18-45

¹⁸And he saith, This thing I shall do; I shall throw down my barns, and I shall make greater, and thither I shall gather all things that grow to me, and my goods.

¹⁹And I shall say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods kept into full many years; rest thou, eat, drink, and make feast.

²⁰And God said to him, Fool, in this night they shall take thy life from thee or they shall ask of thee thy soul. And whose shall those things be, that thou hast arrayed?

²¹So is he that treasureth to himself, and is not rich in God.

²²And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, do not ye be busy to your life, what ye shall eat, neither to your body, with what ye shall be clothed.

²³The life is more than meat, and the body more than clothing.

²⁴Behold the crows, for they sow not, neither reap, to which is neither cellar, nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much more ye be or be ye of more price than they.

²⁵And who of you by thinking may put or add one cubit to his stature?

²⁶Therefore if ye may not do that that is least, what be ye busy of other things?

²⁷Behold ye the lilies of the field, how they wax; they travail not, neither spin. And I say to you, that neither Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.

²⁸And if God clotheth thus the hay, that today is in the field, and tomorrow is cast into an oven; how much more you of little faith.

²⁹And do not ye seek, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; and do not ye be raised on high.

³⁰For folks of the world seek all these things; and your Father knoweth, that ye have need to all these things.

³¹Nevertheless seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be cast to you.

³²Do not ye, little flock, dread, for it pleased to your Father to give you a kingdom.

³³Sell ye those things that ye have in possession or that ye wield, and give ye alms. And make to you satchels that wax not old, treasure that faileth not in heavens, whither a thief nigh-eth not, neither moth destroyeth.

³⁴For where is thy treasure, there thine heart shall be. Forsooth where thy treasure is, there also thine heart shall be.

³⁵Be your loins girded above, and lanterns burning in your hands;

³⁶and be ye like to men that abide their lord, when he shall turn again from the weddings, that when he shall come, and knock, anon they open to him.

³⁷Blessed be those servants, that when the lord shall come, he shall find waking. Truly I say to you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit to or at the meat, and he shall go, and serve them.

³⁸And if he come in the second waking, and if he come in the third waking, and find so, those servants be blessed.

³⁹And know ye this thing, for if an husbandman knew, in what hour the thief would come, soothly he should wake, and not suffer his house to be under-mined.

⁴⁰And be ye ready, for in what hour ye guess not, man’s Son shall come.

⁴¹And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or to all?

⁴²And the Lord said, Who, guessest thou, is a true or a faithful dispenser, and prudent, whom the lord hath ordained on his meine, to give them in time a measure of wheat?

⁴³Blessed is that servant, that the lord when he cometh, shall find so doing.

⁴⁴Verily I say to you, that on all things that he wieldeth, he shall ordain him.

⁴⁵That if that servant say in his heart, My lord tarrieth to come; and begin to smite children, and hand-maidens, and eat, and drink, and be filled or full-filled over-measure,