Luke 12:19-38

¹⁹and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

²⁰But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

²¹Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

²²And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

²³The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

²⁴Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are ye than the birds?

²⁵But which of you by being careful can add to his stature one cubit?

²⁶If therefore ye cannot do even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?

²⁷Consider the lilies how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.

²⁸But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?

²⁹And ye, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

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

³¹but seek his kingdom, and all these things shall be added to you.

³²Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

³³Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.

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

³⁵Let your loins be girded about, and lamps burning;

³⁶and ye like men who wait their own lord whenever he may leave the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.

³⁷Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord on coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.

³⁸And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find them thus, blessed are those bondmen.