18And he said, This wil I do, I wil pul downe my barnes, and builde greater, and therein will I gather all my fruites, and my goods.
19And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.
20But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule from thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?
21So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.
22And he spake vnto his disciples, Therefore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life, what yee shall eate: neither for your body, what yee shall put on.
23The life is more then meate: and the body more then the raiment.
24Consider the rauens: for they neither sowe nor reape: which neither haue storehouse nor barne, and yet God feedeth them: how much more are yee better then foules?
25And which of you with taking thought, can adde to his stature one cubite?
26If yee then bee not able to doe the least thing, why take yee thought for the remnant?
27Consider the lilies howe they growe: they labour not, neither spin they: yet I say vnto you, that Salomon himselfe in all his royaltie was not clothed like one of these.
28If then God so clothe the grasse which is to day in the field, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, howe much more will he clothe you, O yee of litle faith?
29Therefore aske not what yee shall eate, or what ye shall drinke, neither hag you in suspense.
30For all such things the people of the world seeke for: and your Father knoweth that ye haue neede of these things.
31But rather seeke ye after the kingdome of God, and all these things shalbe cast vpon you.
32Feare not, litle flocke: for it is your Fathers pleasure, to giue you the kingdome.
33Sell that ye haue, and giue almes: make you bagges, which waxe not old, a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen, where no theefe commeth, neither mothe corrupteth.
34For where your treasure is, there will your hearts be also.
35Let your loynes be gird about and your lights burning,
36And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.
37Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde waking: verely I say vnto you, he will girde himselfe about, and make them to sit downe at table, and will come forth, and serue them.
38And if he come in the seconde watch, or come in the third watch, and shall finde them so, blessed are those seruants.
39Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged through.
40Be ye also prepared therefore: for the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.
41Then Peter saide vnto him, Master, tellest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?
42And the Lord saide, Who is a faithfull steward and wise, whom the master shall make ruler ouer his householde, to giue them their portion of meate in season?
43Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.
44Of a trueth I say vnto you, that he wil make him ruler ouer all that he hath.
45But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,
46The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.
47And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.
48But he that knewe it not, and yet did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with fewe stripes: for vnto whomsoeuer much is giuen, of him shalbe much required, and to whom men much commit, the more of him will they aske.
49I am come to put fire on the earth, and what is my desire, if it be already kindled?
Luke 12
Luke 12:18-49