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\subsection{Luke 12}
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\subsubsection{Fear God, Not people}
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\VS{1} When the myriads of the crowd were gathered,
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so as to be trampling each other,
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he began to be saying to his disciples first:
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Be guarding yourselves from the leaven, which is hypocrisy, of the Pharisees.
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\VS{2} For nothing is covered that will not be revealed,
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and hidden that will not become known.
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\VS{3} Rather whatever you say in the darkness will be heard in the light,
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and what you say into the ear in the storehouse will be preached on the houses.
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\VS{4} But I say to you my friends,
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do not fear those who kill the body and after this are having nothing more to do.
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\VS{5} But I will show you whom you should fear;
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fear the [one] having authority after killing to throw [you] into Gehenna\fnGehenna{}.
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Yes, I say to you, fear him.
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\VS{6} Do not five sparrows sell for two farthings?
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And one of them does not escape notice before God.
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\VS{7} But even all the hairs [of your] head are numbered.
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Be not fearing, you are worth many sparrows.
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\VS{8} But I say to you, everyone who professes\footnote{or ``agrees with''} me before p;eople\fnAnthropos{},
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the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{} will also profess him before the angels of God.
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\VS{9} But the [one] who denies me before people\fnAnthropos{} will be denied before the angels of God.
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\VS{10} And everyone who will say word against the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{},
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it will be forgiven him. But [whoever] slanders against the Holy Spirit it will not be forgiven him.
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\VS{11} But whenever they bring you in before the synagogues and rulers and authorities,
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be not concerned how or what you should speak in defense or what you should say.
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\VS{12} For the Holy Spirit will give to you in that hour what it is necessary to say.
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\subsubsection{The Parable of the Rich Landowner}
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\VS{13} But one out of the crowd said to him:
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Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the inheritance.
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\VS{14} But he said to him:
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O Human\fnAnthropos{}, who appointed me judge or arbiter\footnote{Divider} over you?
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\VS{15} But he said to him:
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Be watching and be guarding from all greed, for not in the abundance of anything is your \zoe{}-life\fnZoe{},
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beyond what is sufficient for it.
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\VS{16} So he spoke to them [a] parable saying: [a] certain rich man's land yielded well.
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\VS{17} And he was reasoning in himself saying: What will I do,
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for I do not have anywhere I may gather my fruit?
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\VS{18} And he said:
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This will I do: I will tear down the storehouse and will build [a] greater,
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and I will gather there all my grain and all my good [things],
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\VS{19} and I will say in my psyche-life\fnPsyche{}: Psyche-Life\fnPsyche{},
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you have many good [things] laid up to many years.
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Be resting, be eating, be drinking, be being glad.
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\VS{20} But God said to him: Fool, this night your psyche-life\fnPsyche{} is demanded back from you.
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But what you have gathered, for whom\footnote{or ``what''} will they be?
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\VS{21} Thus is the [one] gathering for himself and not being rich to God.
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\subsubsection{Exhortation Not to Worry}
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\VS{22} But he said to his disciples:
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Because of this I say to you: Be not being anxious for your psyche-life\fnPsyche{},
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what you shall eat, nor for your body what you shall wear.
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\VS{23} For the psyche-life\fnPsyche{} is more than food and the body [more] than clothing.
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\VS{24} Consider the ravens that neither sow nor reap, to whom is neither store nor granary,
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and God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds.
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\VS{25} But who among you being anxious is able upon his stature to add [a] cubit\fnCubit{}?
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\VS{26} If therefore you are incapable of the least, why are you anxious concerning the rest?
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\VS{27} Consider the lily, which neither spins nor weaves,
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yet I say to you even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as one of these.
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\VS{28} So if God thus clothes the grass being in the field today
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and in the furnace being thrown tomorrow,
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how much more you, O little-faiths?
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\VS{29} And you be not seeking what you shall eat and what you shall drink,
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and be not being anxious.
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\VS{30} For all these do the nations of the world\fnKosmos{} seek.
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But your father knows that you need these [things].
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\VS{31} Rather be seeking his kingdom, and all these [things] will be added.
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\VS{32} Be not fearing, O little flock for your father delights to give to you the kingdom.
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\VS{33} Sell your possessions and give to charitable giving.
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Make for yourselves [a] purse not becoming old,
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[a] treasure inexhaustible in the heavens, where thief can not draw nigh nor moth spoil,
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\VS{34} for where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.
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\subsubsection{Call to Faithful Stewardship}
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\VS{35} Let your loins be girded and your lamps lit.
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\VS{36} And you [be] like men expecting their Lord,
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when he returns from the wedding,
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that having come and knocked immediately you may open to him.
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\VS{37} Blessed are those slaves whom when he comes the Lord finds alert\footnote{or ``watchful''}.
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Truly I say to you that he will gird them and make them recline and coming by he will serve them.
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\VS{38} And if in the second or in the third watch he come and find them thus,
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blessed are those.
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\VS{39} But this you know, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief comes,
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he would not have allowed [him] to dig through his house.
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\VS{40} And you be becoming ready, for in what hour you suppose not does the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{} come.
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\VS{41} But \Petros said to him: Lord, do you say to us this parable or to all?
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\VS{42} And the Lord said: Which therefore is the trustworthy shrewd steward
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whom the Lord appointed over his servants to be giving in the proper-time\fnKairos{} their portion?
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\VS{43} Blessed is that slave whom when his Lord comes finds him thus doing.
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\VS{44} Truly I say to you that he will appoint him over all his possessions.
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\VS{45} But if that slave say in his heart:
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My Lord delays to come, and begin to beat the [other] men-slaves and women-slaves,
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to be eating and drinking and getting drunk,
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\VS{46} the Lord of that slave will have come\footnote{or ``be present''}
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in the day that he does not expect and in the hour
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which he does not know and will cut him asunder,
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and his portion will be placed with the untrusting\fnPistis{}.
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\VS{47} But that slave who knows the will of his Lord
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and not having prepared or done towards his wishes will be beaten much.
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\VS{48} But the [one] not knowing, but having done worthy of blows,
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he will be beaten little.
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For to all to whom much is given, much will be required.
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And to whom much is entrusted, greater will be asked of him.
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\subsubsection{Not Peace, but Division}
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\VS{49} I came to throw fire on the earth, and what I wish if already kindled.
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\VS{50} But I have [a] baptism to be baptized,
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and how I am distressed\footnote{or ``urged on''} until it be completed\fnTelos{}.
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\VS{51} You suppose that I came to give peace to the earth? No, I say to you, but rather division.
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\VS{52} For it will be from now on five in one house divided,
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three against two and two against three.
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\VS{53} They will be divided, father against son and son against father,
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mother against daughter and daughter against mother,
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mother-in-law against her bride and bride against mother-in-law.
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\subsubsection{Reading the Signs}
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\VS{54} But he was saying also to the crowds:
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Whenever you see the clouds rise from the west, immediately you say that [a] thunderstorm comes,
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and thus it comes to pass.
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\VS{56} Hypocrites, you know to examine the face of the earth and heaven,
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but this opportune-time\fnKairos{} you know not how to examine.
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\subsubsection{Clear the Debts}
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\VS{57} But why also from yourselves do you not judge the just [thing]?
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\VS{58} For as you withdraw with your adversary to the ruler,
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in the road give pains to be released from him,
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lest he drag you away to the judge,
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and the judge deliver you up to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.
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\VS{59} I say to you, you will \negd{not} come out from there
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until you return even the last penny\fnLeptos{}.
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