012:019 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up
for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
012:020 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul
is required of you. The things which you have prepared--
whose will they be?'
012:021 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not
rich toward God."
012:022 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious
for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body,
what you will wear.
012:023 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
012:024 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap,
they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them.
How much more valuable are you than birds!
012:025 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
012:026 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are
you anxious about the rest?
012:027 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil,
neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
012:028 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field,
which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven,
how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
012:029 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink;
neither be anxious.
012:030 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things,
but your Father knows that you need these things.
012:031 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
012:032 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
012:033 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy.
Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure
in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches,
neither moth destroys.
012:034 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
012:035 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.
012:036 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns
from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks,
they may immediately open to him.
012:037 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when
he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself,
and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
012:038 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch,
and finds them so.
012:039 But know this, that if the master of the house had known
in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched,
and not allowed his house to be broken into.
012:040 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour
that you don't expect him."
012:041 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us,
or to everybody?"
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