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And now He proceeded to say to His disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is to say, beware of hypocrisy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>There is nothing that is covered up which will not be uncovered, nor hidden which will not become known. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Whatever therefore you have said in the dark, will be heard in the light; and what you have whispered within closed doors will be proclaimed from the house-tops.</p> <a name="4" id="4"></a><p class="hdg">Fearing God Alone<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/10.htm#26">Matthew 10:26-31</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"But to you who are my friends I say, "'Be not afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do nothing further. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who after killing has power to throw into Gehenna: yes, I say to you, fear him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Are not five sparrows sold for a penny? and yet not one of them is a thing forgotten in God's sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'</p> <a name="8" id="8"></a><p class="hdg">Confessing Christ<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/10.htm#32">Matthew 10:32-33</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"And I tell you that every man who shall have acknowledged me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"Moreover every one who shall speak against the Son of Man, may obtain forgiveness; but he who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never obtain forgiveness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And when they are bringing you before synagogues and magistrates and governors, do not anxiously ponder the manner or matter of your defence, nor what you are to say; <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>for the Holy Spirit shall teach you at that very moment what you must say."</p> <p class="hdg">The Parable of the Rich Fool</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Just then a man in the crowd appealed to Him. "Rabbi," he said, "tell my brother to give me a share of the inheritance." <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"Man," He replied, "who has constituted me a judge or arbitrator over you?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And to the people He said, "Take care, be on your guard against all covetousness, for no one's life consists in the superabundance of his possessions." <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And He spoke a parable to them. "A certain rich man's lands," He said, "yielded abundant crops, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and he debated within himself, saying, "'What am I to do? for I have no place in which to store my crops.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"And he said to himself, "'This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store up all my harvest and my wealth; <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and I will say to my life, "'Life, you have ample possessions laid up for many years to come: take your ease, eat, drink, enjoy yourself.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>"But God said to him, "'Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations—for whom shall they be?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God."</p> <a name="22" id="22"></a><p class="hdg">Do Not Worry<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/6.htm#25">Matthew 6:25-34</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then turning to His disciples He said, "For this reason I say to you, 'Dismiss all anxious care for your lives, inquiring what you are to eat, and for your bodies, what you are to put on.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds! <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And which of you is able by anxious thought to add a moment to his life? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Observe the lilies, how they grow. They neither labour nor spin. And yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was as beautifully dressed as one of these. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith! <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>"Therefore, do not be asking what you are to eat nor what you are to drink; and do not waver between hope and fear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For though the nations of the world pursue these things, as for you, your Father knows that you need them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>"Dismiss your fears, little flock: your Father finds a pleasure in giving you the Kingdom.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For where your wealth is stored, there also will your heart be.</p> <a name="35" id="35"></a><p class="hdg">Be Ready for Service<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../genesis/6.htm">Genesis 6:1-7</a>; <a href="../matthew/24.htm#36">Matthew 24:36-51</a>; <a href="../mark/13.htm#32">Mark 13:32-37</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>"Have your girdles on, and let your lamps be alight; <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>and be yourselves like men waiting for their master—on the look-out till he shall return from the wedding feast—that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door instantly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Blessed are those servants, whom their Master when He comes shall find on the watch. I tell you in solemn truth, that He will tie an apron round Him, and will bid them recline at table while He comes and waits on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And whether it be in the second watch or in the third that He comes and finds them so, blessed are they.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake and not have allowed his house to be broken into. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>"Master," said Peter, "are you addressing this parable to us, or to all alike?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>"Who, then," replied the Lord, "is the faithful and intelligent steward whom his Master will put in charge of His household to serve out their rations at the proper times? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Blessed is that servant whom his Master when He comes shall find so doing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>I tell you truly that He will put him in authority over all His possessions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess; <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>that servant's Master will come on a day when he is not expecting Him and at an hour that he knows not of, and will punish him severely, and make him share the lot of the unfaithful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.</p> <a name="49" id="49"></a><p class="hdg">Not Peace, But Division<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/10.htm#34">Matthew 10:34-36</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>"I came to throw fire upon the earth, and what is my desire? Oh that it were even now kindled! <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>But I have a baptism to undergo; and how am I pent up till it is accomplished! <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you that I came to bring dissension. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>For from this time there will be in one house five persons split into parties. Three will form a party against two and two will form a party against three; <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>father against son and son against father; mother attacking daughter and daughter her mother, mother-in-law her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law her mother-in-law."</p> <a name="54" id="54"></a><p class="hdg">Interpreting the Present Time<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/16.htm">Matthew 16:1-4</a>; <a href="../mark/8.htm#11">Mark 8:11-13</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>Then He said to the people also, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'There is to be a shower;' and it comes to pass. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, 'It will be burning hot;' and it comes to pass. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>Vain pretenders! You know how to read the aspect of earth and sky. How is it you cannot read this present time?</p> <a name="57" id="57"></a><p class="hdg">Reconciling with Your Adversary<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/5.htm#21">Matthew 5:21-26</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>"Why, too, do you not of yourselves arrive at just conclusions? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span>For when, with your opponent, you are going before the magistrate, on the way take pains to get out of his power; for fear that, if he should drag you before the judge, the judge may hand you over to the officer of the court, and the officer lodge you in prison. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/12-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>Never, I tell you, will you get free till you have paid the last farthing."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Weymouth New testament<br /><br /><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/luke/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>