Luke 12:6-35

⁶Whether fyue sparowis ben not seld for twei halpens; and oon of hem is not in foryetyng bifor God?

⁷But also alle the heeris of youre heed ben noumbrid. Therfor nyle ye drede; ye ben of more prijs than many sparowis.

⁸Treuli Y seie to you, ech man that knoulechith me bifor men, mannus sone schal knouleche hym bifor the aungels of God.

⁹But he that denyeth me bifor men, schal be denyed bifor the aungels of God.

¹⁰And ech that seith a word ayens mannus sone, it schal be foryouun to hym; but it schal not be foryouun to hym, that blasfemeth ayens the Hooli Goost.

¹¹And whanne thei leden you in to synagogis, and to magistratis, and potestatis, nyle ye `be bisie, hou or what ye schulen answere, or what ye schulen seie.

¹²For the Hooli Goost schal teche you in that our, what it bihoueth you to seie.

¹³And oon of the puple seide to hym, Maystir, seie to my brothir, that he departe with me the eritage.

¹⁴And he seyde to hym, Man, who ordeynede me a domesman, or a departere, on you?

¹⁵And he seide to hem, Se ye, and be ye war of al coueytice; for the lijf of a man is not in the abundaunce of tho thingis, whiche he weldith.

¹⁶And he tolde to hem a liknesse, and seide, The feeld of a riche man brouyte forth plenteuouse fruytis.

¹⁷And he thouyte with ynne hym silf, and seide, What schal Y do, for Y haue not whidur Y schal gadere my fruytis?

¹⁸And he seith, This thing Y schal do; Y schal throwe doun my bernes, and Y schal make gretter, and thidir Y schal gadir alle thingis that growen to me, and my goodis.

¹⁹And Y schal seie to my soule, Soule, thou hast many goodis kept in to ful many yeeris; rest thou, ete, drynke, and make feeste.

²⁰And God seide to hym, Fool, in this nyyt thei schulen take thi lijf fro thee. And whos schulen tho thingis be, that thou hast arayed?

²¹So is he that tresourith to hym silf, and is not riche in God.

²²And he seide to hise disciplis, Therfor Y seie to you, nyle ye be bisy to youre lijf, what ye schulen ete, nether to youre bodi, with what ye schulen be clothid.

²³The lijf is more than mete, and the body more than clothing.

²⁴Biholde ye crowis, for thei sowen not, nethir repen, to whiche is no celer, ne berne, and God fedith hem. Hou myche more ye ben of more prijs than thei.

²⁵And who of you bithenkynge may put to o cubit to his stature?

²⁶Therfor if ye moun not that that is leest, what ben ye bisie of othere thingis?

²⁷Biholde ye the lilies of the feeld, hou thei wexen; thei trauelen not, nethir spynnen. And Y seie to you, that nethir Salomon in al his glorie was clothid as oon of these.

²⁸And if God clothith thus the hey, that to dai is in the feeld, and to morewe is cast in to an ouen; hou myche more you of litil feith.

²⁹And nyle ye seke, what ye schulen ete, or what ye schulen drynke; and nyle ye be reisid an hiy.

³⁰For folkis of the world seken alle these thingis; `and your fadir woot, that ye neden alle these thingis.

³¹Netheles seke ye first the kyngdom of God, and alle these thingis schulen be caste to you.

³²Nile ye, litil flok, drede, for it pleside to youre fadir to yyue you a kyngdom.

³³Selle ye tho thingis that ye han in possessioun, and yyue ye almes. And make to you sachels that wexen not oolde, tresoure that failith not in heuenes, whidir a theef neiyith not, nether mouyt destruyeth.

³⁴For where is thi tresoure, there thin herte schal be.

³⁵Be youre leendis gird aboue, and lanternes brennynge in youre hoondis;