12:17. And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 12:18. And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me and my goods. 12:19. And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. 12:20. But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? 12:21. So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God. 12:22. And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. 12:23. The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment. 12:24. Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they? 12:25. And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 12:26. If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest? 12:27. Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. 12:28. Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye of little faith? 12:29. And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high. 12:30. For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things. 12:31. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice: and all these things shall be added unto you. 12:32. Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. 12:33. Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. 12:34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 12:35. Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. 12:36. And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. 12:37. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them. 12:38. And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants. 12:39. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.