Luke 12:6-35

⁶Are not five sparowes bought for two farthinges? And yet not one of them is forgotten of God.

⁷Also even the very heres of youre heedes are nombred. Feare not therfore: ye are moare of value then many sparowes.

⁸I saye vnto you: Whosoever confesseth me before men even him shall the sonne of man confesse also before the angels of God.

⁹And he that denyeth me before men: shalbe denyed before the angels of God.

¹⁰And whosoever speaketh a worde agaynst the sonne of man it shalbe forgeven him. But vnto him that blasphemeth the holy goost it shall not be forgeven.

¹¹When they bringe you vnto the synagoges and vnto the rulers and officers take no thought how or what thinge ye shall answer or what ye shall speake.

¹²For the holy goost shall teache you in the same houre what ye ought to saye.

¹³One of the company sayde vnto hym: Master byd my brother devide the enheritauce with me.

¹⁴And he sayde vnto him: Man who made me a iudge or a devider over you?

¹⁵Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth.

¹⁶And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge: The groude of a certayne riche man brought forth frutes plenteously

¹⁷and he thought in himsilfe sayinge: what shall I do? because I have noo roume where to bestowe my frutes?

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