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12:3
What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
12:4
I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.
12:5
But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!
12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
12:7
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
12:8
I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
12:9
But whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
12:10
And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
12:11
When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.
12:12
For at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say.”
12:13
Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
12:14
But Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed Me judge or executor between you?”
12:15
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
12:16
Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
12:17
So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
12:18
Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
12:19
Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
12:21
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”