Today's Bible Passage is "Luke Chapter 12 Verse 13 to 34"
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12:13 One of the
multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the
inheritance with me.”
12:14 But he said to him, “Man, who
made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” 12:15 He 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.”
12:16 He spoke a parable to them,
saying, “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
12:17 He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I
don’t have room to store my crops?’ 12:18 He said, ‘This is what I will
do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will
store all my grain and my goods. 12:19 I will tell my soul, “Soul, you
have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be
merry.”’
12:20 “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?’ 12:21 So is he who lays up treasure
for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
12:22 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. 12:23 Life is more than
food, and the body is more than clothing. 12:24 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! 12:25 Which
of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? 12:26 If then
you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about
the rest? 12:27 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. 12:28 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? 12:29
Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be
anxious. 12:30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these
things, but your Father knows that you need these things. 12:31 But
seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. 12:32
Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to
give you the Kingdom. 12:33 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. 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.
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