Luke 12:18-49

¹⁸And he seith, This thing Y schal do; Y schal throwe doun my bernes, and Y schal make gretter, and thidir Y schal gadir alle thingis that growen to me, and my goodis.

¹⁹And Y schal seie to my soule, Soule, thou hast many goodis kept in to ful many yeeris; rest thou, ete, drynke, and make feeste.

²⁰And God seide to hym, Fool, in this nyyt thei schulen take thi lijf fro thee. And whos schulen tho thingis be, that thou hast arayed?

²¹So is he that tresourith to hym silf, and is not riche in God.

²²And he seide to hise disciplis, Therfor Y seie to you, nyle ye be bisy to youre lijf, what ye schulen ete, nether to youre bodi, with what ye schulen be clothid.

²³The lijf is more than mete, and the body more than clothing.

²⁴Biholde ye crowis, for thei sowen not, nethir repen, to whiche is no celer, ne berne, and God fedith hem. Hou myche more ye ben of more prijs than thei.

²⁵And who of you bithenkynge may put to o cubit to his stature?

²⁶Therfor if ye moun not that that is leest, what ben ye bisie of othere thingis?

²⁷Biholde ye the lilies of the feeld, hou thei wexen; thei trauelen not, nethir spynnen. And Y seie to you, that nethir Salomon in al his glorie was clothid as oon of these.

²⁸And if God clothith thus the hey, that to dai is in the feeld, and to morewe is cast in to an ouen; hou myche more you of litil feith.

²⁹And nyle ye seke, what ye schulen ete, or what ye schulen drynke; and nyle ye be reisid an hiy.

³⁰For folkis of the world seken alle these thingis; `and your fadir woot, that ye neden alle these thingis.

³¹Netheles seke ye first the kyngdom of God, and alle these thingis schulen be caste to you.

³²Nile ye, litil flok, drede, for it pleside to youre fadir to yyue you a kyngdom.

³³Selle ye tho thingis that ye han in possessioun, and yyue ye almes. And make to you sachels that wexen not oolde, tresoure that failith not in heuenes, whidir a theef neiyith not, nether mouyt destruyeth.

³⁴For where is thi tresoure, there thin herte schal be.

³⁵Be youre leendis gird aboue, and lanternes brennynge in youre hoondis;

³⁶and be ye lijk to men that abiden her lord, whanne he schal turne ayen fro the weddyngis, that whanne he schal come, and knocke, anoon thei openen to hym.

³⁷Blessid be tho seruauntis, that whanne the lord schal come, he schal fynde wakynge. Treuli Y seie to you, that he schal girde hym silf, and make hem sitte to mete, and he schal go, and serue hem.

³⁸And if he come in the secounde wakynge, and if he come in the thridde wakynge, and fynde so, tho seruauntis ben blessid.

³⁹And wite ye this thing, for if an hosebonde man wiste, in what our the theef wolde come, sotheli he schulde wake, and not suffre his hous to be myned.

⁴⁰And be ye redi, for in what our ye gessen not, mannus sone schal come.

⁴¹And Petre seide to hym, Lord, seist thou this parable to vs, or to alle?

⁴²And the Lord seide, Who, gessist thou, is a trewe dispendere, and a prudent, whom the lord hath ordeyned on his meyne, to yyue hem in tyme mesure of whete?

⁴³Blessid is that seruaunt, that the lord whanne he cometh, schal fynde so doynge.

⁴⁴Verili Y seie to you, that on alle thingis that he weldith, he schal ordeyne hym.

⁴⁵That if that seruaunt seie in his herte, My lord tarieth to come; and bigynne to smyte children, and handmaydenes, and ete, and drynke, and be fulfillid ouer mesure,

⁴⁶the lord of that seruaunt schal come, in the dai that he hopith not, and the our that he woot not; and schal departe hym, and putte his part with vnfeithful men.

⁴⁷But thilke seruaunt that knew the wille of his lord, and made not hym redi, and dide not aftir his wille, schal be betun with many betyngis.

⁴⁸But he that knew not, and dide worthi thingis of strokis, schal be betun with fewe. For to eche man to whom myche is youun, myche schal be axid of hym; and thei schulen axe more of hym, to whom thei bitoken myche.

⁴⁹Y cam to sende fier `in to the erthe, and what wole Y, but that it be kyndlid?