Luke 12

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Meanwhile the people had gathered in their thousands so that they were treading on one another. Andhe began to speak, first of al to his disciples. 'Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees -- theirhypocrisy.	1 And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2 Everything now covered up will be uncovered, and everything now hidden wil be made clear.	2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed: nor hidden, that shall not be known.
3 For this reason, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you havewhispered in hidden places wil be proclaimed from the housetops.	3 For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness, shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers, shall be preached on the housetops.
4 'To you my friends I say: Do not be afraid of those who kil the body and after that can do no more.	4 And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
5 I wil tel you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has kil ed, has the power to cast into hel . Yes, I telyou, he is the one to fear.	5 But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.
6 Can you not buy five sparrows for two pennies? And yet not one is forgotten in God's sight.	6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
7 Why, every hair on your head has been counted. There is no need to be afraid: you are worth morethan many sparrows.	7 Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
8 'I tel you, if anyone openly declares himself for me in the presence of human beings, the Son of manwil declare himself for him in the presence of God's angels.	8 And I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.
9 But anyone who disowns me in the presence of human beings wil be disowned in the presence ofGod's angels.	9 But he that shall deny me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.
10 'Everyone who says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven, but no one who blasphemesagainst the Holy Spirit wil be forgiven.	10 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven.
11 'When they take you before synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how todefend yourselves or what to say,	11 And when they shall bring you into the synagogues, and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say;
12 because when the time comes, the Holy Spirit wil teach you what you should say.'	12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you must say.
13 A man in the crowd said to him, 'Master, tel my brother to give me a share of our inheritance.'	13 And one of the multitude said to him: Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me.
14 He said to him, 'My friend, who appointed me your judge, or the arbitrator of your claims?'	14 But he said to him: Man, who hath appointed me judge, or divider, over you?
15 Then he said to them, 'Watch, and be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for life does notconsist in possessions, even when someone has more than he needs.'	15 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.
16 Then he told them a parable, 'There was once a rich man who, having had a good harvest from hisland,	16 And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits.
17 thought to himself, "What am I to do? I have not enough room to store my crops."	17 And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
18 Then he said, "This is what I will do: I wil pul down my barns and build bigger ones, and store al mygrain and my goods in them,	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.
19 and I will say to my soul: My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come;take things easy, eat, drink, have a good time."	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.
20 But God said to him, "Fool! This very night the demand wil be made for your soul; and this hoard ofyours, whose wil it be then?"	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?
21 So it is when someone stores up treasure for himself instead of becoming rich in the sight of God.'	21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.
22 Then he said to his disciples, 'That is why I am tel ing you not to worry about your life and what youare to eat, nor about your body and how you are to clothe it.	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.
23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.	23 The life is more than the meat, and the body is more than the raiment.
24 Think of the ravens. They do not sow or reap; they have no storehouses and no barns; yet God feedsthem. And how much more you are worth than the birds!	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?
25 Can any of you, however much you worry, add a single cubit to your span of life?	25 And which of you, by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?
26 If a very smal thing is beyond your powers, why worry about the rest?	26 If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?
27 Think how the flowers grow; they never have to spin or weave; yet, I assure you, not even Solomon inal his royal robes was clothed like one of them.	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.
28 Now if that is how God clothes a flower which is growing wild today and is thrown into the furnacetomorrow, how much more wil he look after you, who have so little faith!	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?
29 But you must not set your hearts on things to eat and things to drink; nor must you worry.	29 And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.
30 It is the gentiles of this world who set their hearts on al these things. Your Father wel knows youneed them.	30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things.
31 No; set your hearts on his kingdom, and these other things will be given you as well.	31 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
32 'There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.	32 Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.
33 'Sel your possessions and give to those in need. Get yourselves purses that do not wear out,treasure that wil not fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and no moth destroy it.	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.
34 For wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart wil be too.	34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35 'See that you have your belts done up and your lamps lit.	35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands.
36 Be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door assoon as he comes and knocks.	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.
37 Blessed those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. In truth I tel you, he wil do uphis belt, sit them down at table and wait on them.	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.
38 It may be in the second watch that he comes, or in the third, but blessed are those servants if he findsthem ready.	38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time the burglar wouldcome, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house.	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.
40 You too must stand ready, because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.'	40 Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.
41 Peter said, 'Lord, do you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?'	41 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?
42 The Lord replied, 'Who, then, is the wise and trustworthy steward whom the master wil place over hishousehold to give them at the proper time their al owance of food?	42 And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?
43 Blessed that servant if his master's arrival finds him doing exactly that.	43 Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.
44 I tel you truly, he wil put him in charge of everything that he owns.	44 Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.
45 But if the servant says to himself, "My master is taking his time coming," and sets about beating themenservants and the servant-girls, and eating and drinking and getting drunk,	45 But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:
46 his master wil come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master willcut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.	46 The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.
47 'The servant who knows what his master wants, but has got nothing ready and done nothing inaccord with those wishes, wil be given a great many strokes of the lash.	47 And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48 The one who did not know, but has acted in such a way that he deserves a beating, will be givenfewer strokes. When someone is given a great deal, a great deal wil be demanded of that person; whensomeone is entrusted with a great deal, of that person even more will be expected.	48 But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.
49 'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!	49 I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?
50 There is a baptism I must stil receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!	50 And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?
51 'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tel you, but rather division.	51 Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.
52 For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three;	52 For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.
53 father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law todaughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'	53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
54 He said again to the crowds, 'When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rainis coming, and so it does.	54 And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth:
55 And when the wind is from the south you say it's going to be hot, and it is.	55 And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.
56 Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the face of the earth and the sky. How is it you do not knowhow to interpret these times?	56 You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?
57 'Why not judge for yourselves what is upright?	57 And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just?
58 For example: when you are going to court with your opponent, make an effort to settle with him on theway, or he may drag you before the judge and the judge hand you over to the officer and the officer have youthrown into prison.	58 And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison.
59 I tel you, you wil not get out til you have paid the very last penny.'	59 I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence, until thou pay the very last mite.