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Luke 12:33-58

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33Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make for yourselves ‘purses’ that will not wear out, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where a thief cannot approach, nor a moth destroy.
34Because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
35“Let your waists be belted and your lamps burning,
36and you yourselves like men waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.
37Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find watching when he comes. Assuredly I say to you that he will gird himself and have them recline, and will come and serve them.
38And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those slaves.
39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not allowed his house to be broken into.
40Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, are you directing this parable to us, or to everyone?”
42So the Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and prudent steward whom his master will place over his household to give them the food allowance at the right time?
43Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
44I tell you truly that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
45But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master won't come for a while,’ and should begin to hit the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.
47“That servant who knew his master's will, but neither got ready nor did according to that will, will be beaten with many blows.
48But he who did not know, yet did things worthy of blows, will be beaten with few. Everyone to whom much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him much more will be asked.
49“I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
50But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed!
51Do you imagine that I came to provide peace on the earth? Not at all, I tell you, but rather division.
52Because from now on there will be five in one house divided: three against two and two against three.
53Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
54Then He also said to the crowds: “Whenever you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and so it does.
55And whenever a south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it happens.
56Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky and of the earth, so how can you not discern this time?
57Also why, even of yourselves, do you not judge what is right?
58“When you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, make every effort along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, the judge deliver you to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

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