Luke 12:6-35

⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? and one of them is not forgotten before God.

⁷But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.

⁸But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, the Son of man will confess him also before the angels of God;

⁹but he that shall have denied me before men shall be denied before the angels of God;

¹⁰and whoever shall say a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him; but to him that speaks injuriously against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

¹¹But when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and the authorities, be not careful how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;

¹²for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the hour itself what should be said.

¹³And a person said to him out of the crowd, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

¹⁴But he said to him, Man, who established me as a judge or a divider over you?

¹⁵And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.

¹⁶And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

¹⁷And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not a place where I shall lay up my fruits.

¹⁸And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;

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;