The Good News According to Luke
capítulo 12
verso 1
Meanwhile, 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.
verso 2
But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.
verso 3
Therefore 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.
verso 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.
verso 5
But 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.
verso 6
“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
verso 7
But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
verso 8
“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;
verso 9
but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.
verso 10
Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
verso 11
When 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;
verso 12
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”
verso 13
One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
verso 14
But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
verso 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.”
verso 16
He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
verso 17
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
verso 18
He 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.
verso 19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’
verso 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?’
verso 21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
verso 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.
verso 23
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
verso 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!
verso 25
Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
verso 26
If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
verso 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.
verso 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?
verso 29
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
verso 30
For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
verso 31
But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
verso 32
“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
verso 33
Sell 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.
verso 34
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
verso 35
“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
verso 36
Be 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.
verso 37
Blessed 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.
verso 38
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.
verso 39
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.
verso 40
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”
verso 41
Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
verso 42
The 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?
verso 43
Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
verso 44
Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
verso 45
But 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,
verso 46
then 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.
verso 47
That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
verso 48
but 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.
verso 49
“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
verso 50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
verso 51
Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
verso 52
For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
verso 53
They 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.”
verso 54
He 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.
verso 55
When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
verso 56
You 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?
verso 57
“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
verso 58
For 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.
verso 59
I tell you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid the very last penny.”
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