Luke 12

1Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.Cross-references: 2Ki 7:17 · Job 20:5 · Job 27:8 · Job 36:13 · Isa 33:14 · Matt 16:6 · +11 more

2But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.Cross-references: Eccl 12:14 · Matt 10:26 · Mark 4:22 · Luke 8:17 · Rom 2:16 · 1Cor 4:5 · +2 more

3Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.Cross-references: Job 24:14 · Eccl 10:12 · Eccl 10:20 · Matt 10:27 · Matt 12:36 · Jude 1:14

4“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.Cross-references: Song 5:1 · Song 5:16 · Isa 41:8 · Isa 51:7 · Jer 1:8 · Jer 1:17 · +11 more

5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.Cross-references: Ps 9:17 · Prov 14:26 · Jer 5:22 · Jer 10:7 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 10:28 · +9 more

6“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.Cross-references: Ps 50:10 · Ps 113:5 · Ps 145:15 · Ps 147:9 · Matt 10:29 · Luke 12:24 · +1 more

7But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.Cross-references: 1Sam 14:45 · 2Sam 14:11 · Job 35:11 · Ps 8:6 · Isa 43:3 · Matt 6:26 · +4 more

8“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;Cross-references: 1Sam 2:30 · Ps 119:46 · Matt 10:32 · Matt 25:31 · Luke 15:10 · Rom 10:9 · +6 more

9but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.Cross-references: Matt 7:23 · Matt 10:33 · Matt 25:12 · Matt 25:31 · Matt 25:41 · Mark 8:38 · +7 more

10Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.Cross-references: Matt 12:31 · Mark 3:28 · Luke 23:34 · 1Tim 1:13 · Heb 6:4 · Heb 10:26 · +1 more

11When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer or what you will say;Cross-references: Matt 10:17 · Matt 23:34 · Mark 13:9 · Luke 12:22 · Luke 21:12 · Acts 4:5 · +2 more

12for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Matt 10:20 · Luke 21:15 · Acts 4:8 · Acts 6:10 · Acts 7:2 · +2 more

13One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”Cross-references: Ps 17:14 · Ezek 33:31 · Luke 6:45 · Acts 8:18 · 1Tim 6:5

14But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”Cross-references: Ex 2:14 · Mic 6:8 · Luke 5:20 · Luke 22:58 · John 6:15 · John 8:11 · +4 more

15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”Cross-references: Josh 7:21 · Job 2:4 · Job 31:24 · Ps 10:3 · Ps 37:16 · Ps 62:10 · +25 more

16He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Gen 41:47 · Job 12:6 · Ps 73:3 · Ps 73:12 · Hos 2:8 · +2 more

17He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’Cross-references: Eccl 11:2 · Isa 58:7 · Matt 5:42 · Luke 3:11 · Luke 10:25 · Luke 11:41 · +14 more

18He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.Cross-references: Ps 17:14 · Luke 12:21 · Luke 18:4 · Luke 18:6 · James 3:15 · James 4:15

19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’Cross-references: Deut 6:11 · Deut 8:12 · Job 14:1 · Job 21:11 · Job 31:24 · Ps 49:5 · +26 more

20“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?’Cross-references: Ex 16:9 · 1Sam 25:36 · 2Sam 13:28 · 1Ki 16:9 · Esth 5:11 · Esth 8:1 · +22 more

21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”Cross-references: Hos 10:1 · Hab 2:9 · Matt 6:19 · Luke 6:24 · Luke 12:33 · Luke 16:11 · +6 more

22He 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.Cross-references: Matt 6:25 · Luke 12:29 · 1Cor 7:32 · Phil 4:6 · Heb 13:5

23Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Job 1:12 · Job 2:4 · Job 2:6 · Prov 13:8 · Acts 27:18 · +1 more

24Consider 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!Cross-references: 1Ki 17:1 · Job 35:11 · Job 38:41 · Ps 145:15 · Ps 147:9 · Matt 10:31 · +3 more

25Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?Cross-references: Matt 5:36 · Matt 6:27 · Luke 19:3

26If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?Cross-references: Ps 39:6 · Eccl 7:13 · Luke 12:29 · 1Pet 5:7

27Consider 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:1 · 2Chr 9:1 · Matt 6:28 · Luke 12:24 · James 1:10

28But 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?Cross-references: Isa 40:6 · Matt 6:30 · Matt 8:26 · Matt 14:31 · Matt 16:8 · Matt 17:17 · +3 more

29“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.Cross-references: Matt 6:31 · Luke 10:7 · Luke 12:22 · Luke 22:35

30For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.Cross-references: Matt 5:47 · Matt 6:1 · Matt 6:8 · Matt 6:32 · Matt 10:20 · Matt 18:14 · +5 more

31But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.Cross-references: 1Ki 3:11 · Ps 34:9 · Ps 37:3 · Ps 37:19 · Ps 37:25 · Ps 84:11 · +7 more

32“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.Cross-references: Song 1:7 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 53:6 · Jer 3:19 · Matt 7:15 · +21 more

33Sell what 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 and no moth destroys.Cross-references: Hag 1:6 · Matt 6:19 · Matt 19:21 · Luke 11:41 · Luke 12:21 · Luke 16:9 · +7 more

34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.Cross-references: Matt 6:21 · Phil 3:20 · Col 3:1

35“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:46 · Prov 31:17 · Isa 5:27 · Isa 11:5 · Matt 5:16 · Matt 25:1 · +4 more

36Be like men watching for their lord when he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Song 5:5 · Isa 64:4 · Lam 3:25 · Matt 22:1 · Matt 24:42 · +7 more

37Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.Cross-references: Isa 62:5 · Jer 32:41 · Zeph 3:17 · Matt 24:42 · Matt 24:45 · Matt 25:20 · +16 more

38They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.Cross-references: Matt 25:6 · 1Thess 5:4

39But 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.Cross-references: Matt 6:19 · Matt 24:43 · 1Thess 5:2 · 2Pet 3:10 · Rev 3:3 · Rev 16:15

40Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”Cross-references: Matt 24:42 · Matt 24:44 · Matt 25:13 · Mark 13:33 · Luke 21:34 · Rom 13:11 · +4 more

41Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”Cross-references: Mark 13:37 · Mark 14:37 · 1Pet 4:7 · 1Pet 5:8

42The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?Cross-references: Prov 15:23 · Isa 50:4 · Jer 23:4 · Ezek 34:3 · Matt 13:52 · Matt 20:8 · +17 more

43Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

44Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.Cross-references: Dan 12:2 · Matt 24:47 · Luke 19:17 · Luke 22:29 · Rev 3:18

45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,Cross-references: Isa 56:10 · Isa 65:6 · Jer 20:2 · Ezek 12:22 · Ezek 12:27 · Ezek 34:3 · +18 more

46then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.Cross-references: Job 20:29 · Ps 11:5 · Ps 37:9 · Ps 94:14 · Matt 7:22 · Matt 13:41 · +5 more

47That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,Cross-references: Num 15:30 · Deut 25:2 · Matt 11:22 · Luke 10:12 · John 9:41 · John 12:48 · +5 more

48but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.Cross-references: Gen 39:8 · Lev 5:17 · Num 15:29 · Matt 13:12 · Matt 25:14 · Luke 16:2 · +10 more

49“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.Cross-references: Isa 11:4 · Joel 2:30 · Mal 3:2 · Mal 4:1 · Matt 3:10 · Luke 11:53 · +6 more

50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!Cross-references: Ps 40:8 · Matt 20:17 · Mark 10:32 · John 4:34 · John 7:6 · John 7:10 · +5 more

51Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.Cross-references: Zech 11:7 · Zech 11:10 · Zech 11:14 · Matt 10:34 · Matt 24:7 · Luke 12:49

52For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.Cross-references: Ps 41:9 · Mic 7:5 · John 7:41 · John 9:16 · John 10:19 · John 15:18 · +4 more

53They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”Cross-references: Mic 7:6 · Zech 13:2 · Matt 10:21 · Matt 24:10

54He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:44 · Matt 16:2

55When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.Cross-references: Job 37:17 · Matt 20:12

56You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?Cross-references: 1Chr 12:32 · Dan 9:24 · Hag 2:7 · Mal 3:1 · Mal 4:2 · Matt 11:25 · +5 more

57“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?Cross-references: Deut 32:29 · Matt 15:10 · Matt 21:21 · Matt 21:32 · Luke 21:30 · John 7:24 · +3 more

58For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.Cross-references: Gen 32:3 · 1Sam 25:18 · Job 22:21 · Job 23:7 · Job 36:17 · Ps 32:6 · +12 more

59I tell you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid the very last penny.”Cross-references: Matt 18:34 · Matt 25:41 · Matt 25:46 · Mark 12:42 · Luke 16:26 · 2Thess 1:3