Luke 12:18-59

¹⁸And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes and bilde greater and therin will I gadder all my frutes and my goodes:

¹⁹and I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery.

²⁰But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole this night will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded?

²¹So is it with him that gadereth ryches and is not ryche in God.

²²And he spake vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: take no thought for youre lyfe what ye shall eate nether for youre body what ye shall put on.

²³The lyfe is moare then meate and the bodye is moare then rayment.

²⁴Considre the ravens for they nether sowe nor repe which nether have stoorehousse ner barne and yet God fedeth them. How moche are ye better then the foules.

²⁵Which of you with takynge thought can adde to his stature one cubit?

²⁶Yf ye then be not able to do that thinge which is least: why take ye thought for the remmaunt?

²⁷Considre the lylies how they growe: They laboure not: they spyn not: and yet I saye vnto you that Salomon in all this royalte was not clothed lyke to one of these.

²⁸Yf the grasse which is todaye in the felde and tomorowe shalbe cast into the fornace God so clothe: how moche moore will he clothe you o ye endued with litell faith?

²⁹And axe not what ye shall eate or what ye shall drinke nether clyme ye vp an hye

³⁰for all suche thinges the hethen people of the worlde seke for. Youre father knoweth that ye have nede of suche thinges.

³¹Wherfore seke ye after the kyngedome of God and all these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.

³²Feare not litell floocke for it is youre fathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome.

³³Sell that ye have and geve almes. And make you bagges which wexe not olde and treasure that fayleth not in heaven where noo these commeth nether moth corrupteth.

³⁴For where youre treasure is there will youre hertes be also.

³⁵Let youre loynes be gerdde about and youre lightes brennynge

³⁶and ye youre selves lyke vnto men that wayte for their master when he will returne from a weddinge: that assone as he cometh and knocketh they maye open vnto him.

³⁷Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them.

³⁸And yf he come in the seconde watche ye if he come in the thyrde watche and shall fynde them soo happy are those servauntes.

³⁹This vnderstonde that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre ye these wolde come he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp.

⁴⁰Be ye prepared therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

⁴¹Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master tellest thou this similitude vnto vs or to all men?

⁴²And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:

⁴³happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge.

⁴⁴Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

⁴⁵But and yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cominge and shall beginne to smyte the servauntes and maydens and to eate and drinke and to be dronken:

⁴⁶the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not and at an houre when he is not ware and will devyde him and will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.

⁴⁷The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes.

⁴⁸But he that knewe not and yet dyd committe thinges worthy of strypes shalbe beaten with feawe strypes. For vnto whom moche is geven of him shalbe moche requyred. And to whom men moche commyt the moare of him will they axe.

⁴⁹I am come to sende fyre on erth: and what is my dysyre but that it were all redy kyndled?

⁵⁰Not with stondinge I must be baptised with a baptyme: and how am I payned till it be ended?

⁵¹Suppose ye that I am come to sende peace on erth? I tell you naye: but rather debate.

⁵²For from hence forthe ther shalbe five in one housse devided thre agaynst two and two agaynst thre.

⁵³The father shalbe devided agaynst the sonne and the sonne agaynst the father. The mother agaynst the doughter and the doughter agaynst the mother. The moter eleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe and the doughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe.

⁵⁴Then sayde he to the people: when ye se a cloude ryse out of the west strayght waye ye saye: we shall have a shower and soo it is.

⁵⁵And when ye se the south wynde blow ye saye: we shall have heet and it cometh to passe.

⁵⁶Ypocrites ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth and of the skye: but what is the cause that ye cannot skyll of this time?

⁵⁷Ye and why iudge ye not of youre selves what is righte?

⁵⁸Whill thou goest with thyne adversary to the ruler: as thou arte in the waye geve diligence that thou mayst be delivered from him least he bringe the to the iudge and the iudge delyver the to the iaylar and the iaylar cast the in to preson.

⁵⁹I tell the thou departest not thence tyll thou have made good the vtmost myte.