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Yea, I say unto you, Fear him.<Fr> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><FR>Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? and one of them is not forgotten before God.<Fr> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><FR>But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are more important than many sparrows.<Fr><p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Confessing Christ<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/10.htm#32">Matthew 10:32–33</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><FR>But I say unto you, that every one who may confess me before the people, the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God.<Fr> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><FR>But the one denying me before the people will be denied before the angels of God.<Fr> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><FR>And every one who shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him having blasphemed against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven.<Fr> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><FR>But when they may carry you into the synagogues, and tribunals, and authorities; do not be solicitous as to what you may apologize, or what you may say:<Fr> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><FR>for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour the things which it behooveth you to speak.<Fr><p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Rich Fool<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And a certain one from the multitude said to Him, Teacher, speak to my brother, to divide the inheritance with me. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And He said to him; <FR>Man, who established me judge or a divider over you?<Fr> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And He said to them, <FR>See, and beware of all covetousness: because his life is not in that which aboundeth to any one, from those things belonging to him.<Fr> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He spake a parable to them, saying, <FR>The farm of a certain rich man was very productive:<Fr> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><FR>and he was reasoning in himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no place where I shall store my fruits?<Fr> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><FR>And he said, I will do this: I will take down my barns, and build greater, and there I will gather all my fruits and my goods.<Fr> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><FR>And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.<Fr> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><FR>But God said to him, Thou fool, this night they are demanding thy soul from thee; and to whom shall those things which thou hast prepared, belong?<Fr> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><FR>So is every one laying up treasure for himself, and not rich toward God.<Fr><p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">Do Not Worry<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/6.htm#25">Matthew 6:25–34</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And He spoke to His disciples, <FR>Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul, what you may eat; nor for your body, what you may put on.<Fr> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><FR>The soul is more than food, and the body more than raiment.<Fr> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><FR>Observe the ravens, because they neither sow nor reap; to which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them; are you not much better than the fowls?<Fr> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><FR>And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence?<Fr> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><FR>If then you are powerless in the smallest matter, why are you solicitous about other things?<Fr> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><FR>Observe the lilies, how they toil not, neither do they spin: and I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.<Fr> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><FR>And if God so clothes the verdure flourishing in the fields to-day, and to-morrow cast into the oven; how much more are you, O ye of little faith?<Fr> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><FR>And do not seek what you may eat, and what you may drink, and with what you are clothed;<Fr> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><FR>for the heathens of the world are seeking after all these things: but your Father knows that you have need of these things.<Fr> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><FR>Moreover seek His kingdom and these things shall be added unto you.<Fr> <A name="33"></a><p class="hdg">Treasures in Heaven<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/6.htm#19">Matthew 6:19–21</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><FR>Fear not, little flock; because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.<Fr><p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><FR>Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves purses that will not get old, and treasure in the heavens which can not be stolen, where the thief does not draw nigh, nor the moth corrupt.<Fr> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><FR>For where your treasure is, there your heart will be.<Fr><p> <A name="36"></a><p class="hdg">Readiness at Any Hour<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/24.htm#36">Matthew 24:36–51</a>; <a href ="../mark/13.htm#32">Mark 13:32–37</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><FR>Let your loins be girted, and your lamps burning;<Fr> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><FR>and be you like unto men waiting for their lord, when he may rise up from the marriage feast; in order that, coming and knocking, they may open unto him immediately.<Fr> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><FR>Blessed are those servants, whom the lord having come will find watching: truly I say unto you, that he will gird himself, and have them sit down, and having come will serve them.<Fr> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><FR>If at the second, and third, watch he may come, happy are ye.<Fr><p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><FR>Know this, that if the landlord knew at what hour the thief cometh, he would not have permitted his house to be broken into.<Fr> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><FR>Be ye also ready: because at an hour you do not think the Son of man cometh.<Fr><p> <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And Peter said to Him, Lord, do you speak this parable to us, or to all? <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>The Lord said, <FR>Who then is the faithful, wise steward, whom the lord will establish over his house-hold, to give them their food in season?<Fr> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><FR>Happy is that servant, whom his lord having come shall thus find watching.<Fr> <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><FR>Truly I say unto you, that he will establish him over all his possessions.<Fr> <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><FR>But if that servant may say in his heart, my lord delayeth his coming, and may begin to smite the servants and handmaidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunken;<Fr> <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><FR>the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he does not expect, and in an hour in which he does not know, and will cut him off, and will appoint his part with the unbelievers.<Fr> <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><FR>But that servant knowing the will of his lord, and not preparing or doing according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.<Fr> <A name="49"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><FR>But the one not knowing, and doing things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. But to every one to whom much is given, much will be required of him: and to whom they commit much, of him they will ask the more.<Fr><p> <A name="50"></a><p class="hdg">Not Peace but Division<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../micah/7.htm">Micah 7:1–6</a>; <a href ="../matthew/10.htm#34">Matthew 10:34–39</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><FR>I have come to send fire on the earth; and what do I will, if it is already kindled?<Fr> <A name="51"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><FR>And I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it may be perfected!<Fr> <A name="52"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><FR>Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I say unto you, Nay, but division.<Fr> <A name="53"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span><FR>For from now, there shall be five in one house divided, three shall be divided against two, and two against three:<Fr> <A name="54"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span><FR>the father against the son, and the son against the father; and the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.<Fr><p> <A name="55"></a><p class="hdg">Interpreting the Present Time<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/16.htm">Matthew 16:1–4</a>; <a href ="../mark/8.htm#11">Mark 8:11–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>And he also spoke to the multitudes, <FR>When you may see a cloud rising from the west, you immediately say, that the rain cometh; and it is so:<Fr> <A name="56"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span><FR>and when the south wind is blowing, you say, that it will be hot; and it is so.<Fr> <A name="57"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span><FR>You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the earth and the firmament; and how do you not discern this time?<Fr><p> <A name="58"></a><p class="hdg">Reconciling with an Adversary<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/5.htm#21">Matthew 5:21–26</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span><FR>Why do you not judge righteous judgment, even with reference to yourselves?<Fr> <A name="59"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span><FR>For as you go with your adversary to the ruler, give attention on the way that you be reconciled with him; lest he may deliver you to the judge, and the judge shall turn you over to the officer, and the officer will cast you into prison.<Fr> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span><FR>I say unto you, You can by no means come out thence, till you have even paid the last mite.<Fr><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Godbey New Testament (1902)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../luke/11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Luke 11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Luke 11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../luke/13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Luke 13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Luke 13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>