Lucas 12

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. 2 But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. 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.

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. 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.*12:5 or, Hell Yes, I tell you, fear him.

6 "Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins * 12:6 An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer. ? Not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

8 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God; 9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels. 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. 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; 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."

13 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

14 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" 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."

16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. 17 He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’ 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. 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry."’

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?’ 21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

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. 23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. 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! 25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit*12:25 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. to his height? 26 If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? 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. 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?

29 "Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. 30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. 31 But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

32 "Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. 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. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

35 "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. 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. 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. 38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so. 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. 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him."

41 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"

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? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. 44 Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has. 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, 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. 47 That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, 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.

49 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. 52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 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." ✝12:53 Micah 7:6

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. 55 When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens. 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?

57 "Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? 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. 59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid the very last penny.*12:59 literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages."

He Whakatūpato ki te Tinihanga

1 Nā, kei te huihui anō tērā ngā mano, tōna tini, nō ka takatakahi i a rātou anō, ā, ka anga ia ka kōrero i te tuatahi tonu ki āna ākonga, ka mea, "Kia tūpato i te rēwena o ngā Parihi; arā i te tinihanga. 2 Kāhore hoki he mea i hīpokina e mahue te hura; kāhore hoki tētahi mea ngaro e mahue te mōhio. 3 Mō konei ko tā koutou e kōrero ai i te pōuri, ka rangona i te mārama. Ko tā koutou e kī ai ki te taringa i ngā rūma i roto rawa, ka kauwhautia i runga o ngā whare."

Koia hei Wehinga

4 "Nā, ko tāku kupu tēnei ki a koutou, e ōku hoa, kaua e wehi ki te hunga e whakamate nei i te tinana, ā muri iho kāhore he mea e taea e rātou. 5 Engari māku e whakaatu ki a koutou tā koutou e wehi ai. E wehi ki a ia kei a ia nei te mana, i muri i tāna whakamatenga, ki te maka ki Kehena. Āe rā hoki, ko tāku kupu tēnei ki a koutou, e wehi ki a ia!

6 "Kāhore ianei e hokona ngā pīhoihoi e rima ki ngā pātene e rua, ā, kāhore tētahi o rātou e wareware i te Atua? 7 Heoi, kua oti katoa te tatau ngā makawe katoa nei o ō koutou mātenga. Kaua e wehi; engari koutou i ngā pīhoihoi maha."

Te Whākinga, te Whakahāwea rānei, i a te Karaiti

8 "Ko tāku kupu tēnei ki a koutou, ki te whakaae tētahi ki ahau i te aroaro o ngā tāngata, ka whakaaetia anō ia e te Tama a te tangata i te aroaro o ngā anahera a te Atua. 9 Ki te whakakāhore tētahi i ahau i te aroaro o ngā tāngata, ka whakakāhoretia anō ia i te aroaro o ngā anahera a te Atua. 10 Ki te kōrero tētahi he whakahē mō te Tama a te tangata, ka murua tōna hara; tēnā ko te tangata e kohukohua ai te Wairua Tapu, e kore tōna e murua.

11 "Ki te kawea koutou ki ngā whare karakia, ki ngā rangatira, ki te hunga whai mana, kaua e mānukanuka ki te pēhea, ki te aha rānei e whakahoki atu ai koutou, ki tā koutou rānei e kōrero ai. 12 Mā te Wairua Tapu hoki koutou e ako i taua hāora anō ki ngā mea e tika ana kia kōrerotia e koutou."

Te Kupu Whakarite o te Kūare Whai Rawa

13 Nā, ka mea tētahi i roto i te mano ki a ia, "E te Kaiwhakaako, mea atu ki tōku tuakana, kia wehea mai mōku tētahi wāhi o te kāinga."

14 Nā, ko tāna meatanga ki a ia, "E te tangata nei, nā wai ahau i mea hei kaiwhakawā, hei kaiwehewehe i waenganui i a koutou?" 15 I mea anō ia ki a rātou, "Kia mahara, kia tūpato ki te apo; ehara i te mea mā te nui o ngā taonga a te tangata e ora ai ia."

16 Nā, ka kōrerotia e ia tētahi kupu whakarite ki a rātou, ka mea: "Nā, he nui te hua o te whenua o tētahi tangata whai taonga. 17 Nā, ka whakaaroaro ia i roto i a ia, ‘Me pēhea ahau? Kāhore hoki ōku wāhi hei putunga mō āku hua.’

18 "Ā, ka mea ia, ‘Tēnei tāku e mea ai, ka wāwāhia e ahau ōku whare wīti, ā, ka hangā kia nui. Ā, ka kohikohia ki reira āku hua katoa, me āku taonga. 19 Kātahi ahau ka mea ki tōku wairua, E tōku wairua, ka maha āu mea papai kei te rongoā mō ngā tau e maha; noho noa iho, e kai, e inu, kia koa te ngākau.’

20 "Otiia, ka mea te Atua ki a ia, ‘Kūware, ko ā tēnei pō anō tangohia ai tōu wairua i a koe; ā, mā wai ngā mea kua pae nā i a koe?’

21 "Nā, ka pēnā te tangata e whakapūranga ana i te taonga māna ake, ā, kāhore e hua tāna whaka te Atua."

Whakawhirinaki ki te Atua

22 Nā, ka mea ia ki āna ākonga, "Koia ahau ka mea nei ki a koutou, kaua e mānukanuka ki tō koutou oranga, ki tā koutou e kai ai, ki te tinana rānei, ki tā koutou e kākahu ai. 23 Rahi atu te ora i te kai, me te tinana i te kākahu. 24 Whakaaroa ngā raweni: kāhore nei e whakatō, kāhore e kokoti, kāhore ā rātou pākoro, kāhore he whare wīti, heoi, e whāngaia ana rātou e te Atua. Tērā noa ake koutou i ngā manu? 25 Ā, ko wai o koutou e taea e ia te whakaaro iho, te hono tētahi wāhi ki tōna roa, kia kotahi te whatīanga? 26 Ā, ki te kore e taea e koutou te mea nohinohi rawa, he aha i mānukanuka ai ki tētahi atu?

27 "Whakaaroa ngā rengarenga, tō rātou tupu; e kore nei e mahi, e kore e miro, nā, ko tāku tēnei ki a koutou, kīhai a Horomona me tōna korōria katoa i rite ki tētahi o ēnei te whai kākahu. 28 Nā, ki te pēnei tā te Atua whakakākahu i te tarutaru i te pārae, kei reira āianei, ā, āpōpō ka makā ki te oumu. Tērā noa ake tāna i a koutou, e te hunga whakapono iti. 29 Kaua rā e rapu ki tā koutou e kai ai, ki tā koutou e inu ai, kaua e tīrengi noa te whakaaro. 30 E rapu ana hoki ngā iwi o te ao i ēnei mea katoa, otirā e mātau ana tō koutou Matua e matea ana e koutou ēnei mea. 31 Engari rapua te rangatiratanga o te Atua; ā, ka tāpiritia ēnei mea katoa mā koutou."

Ngā Taonga i te Rangi

32 "Kaua e mataku, e te kāhui nohinohi; kua pai hoki tō koutou Matua ki te hōmai i te rangatiratanga ki a koutou. 33 Hokona ō koutou taonga, hoatu he mea mā te hunga rawakore. Hangā mā koutou he pēke moni e kore e tawhitotia, he taonga ki te rangi e kore e memeha, ki te wāhi e kore nei e tata atu te tāhae, e kore anō te huhu e kai. 34 Ko te wāhi hoki i tō koutou taonga, ko reira anō ō koutou ngākau."

Ngā Pononga Pono Mataara

35 "Whītikiria ō koutou hope, tahuna ngā rama kia kā; 36 ko tō koutou rite hei ngā tāngata e tatari ana ki tō rātou rangatira, ina hoki mai i te hākari o te mārena, mō tōna tae rawa mai, ka pātōtō, nā uaki tonu atu rātou ki a ia. 37 Ka koa ngā pononga e rokohina mai e tō rātou rangatira, ā tōna taenga mai, e mataara ana. He pono tāku e mea nei ki a koutou, ka whītiki ia i a ia, ā, ka mea i a rātou kia noho, ka haere ki te mahi mea mā rātou. 38 Ā, ki te haere mai ia i te rua o ngā mataaratanga, i te toru rānei, ā, ka rokohina mai e pērā ana anō, ka koa aua pononga. 39 Otirā, kia mōhio koutou ki tēnei, me i mātau te tangata i te whare, ki te wā e haere mai ai te tāhae, kua mataara ia, ā, kāhore i tukua kia pokaia tōna whare. 40 Kia tatanga rā koutou, nō te mea e puta mai te Tama a te tangata i te hāora e kore ai koutou e mahara."

Te Pononga Pono, Ponokore Rānei

41 Nā, ka mea a Pita ki a ia, "E te Ariki, ki a mātou tēnei kupu whakarite e kōrero nei koe? Ki te katoa rānei?"

42 Nā, ka mea te Ariki, "Ko wai rā te tuari pono, mahara, e meinga e tōna ariki hei rangatira mō āna tāngata, hei hoatu i te mēhua kai i te wā e tika ai? 43 Ka koa taua pononga, ki te rokohina e tōna rangatira ina tae mai, e pēnā ana. 44 He pono tāku e mea nei ki a koutou, ka meinga ia hei rangatira mō āna taonga katoa. 45 Otirā, ki te mea taua pononga i roto i tōna ngākau, ‘Ka roa te haerenga mai o tōku ariki’; ā, ka anga, ka whiu i ngā pononga tāne, i ngā pononga wāhine, ka kai, ka inu, ka haurangi, 46 ka haere mai te rangatira o taua pononga i te rā e kore ai ia e mahara, i te hāora e kore ai ia e mōhio, ā, ka hautopea ia, ka meinga mōna he wāhi i roto i te hunga whakapono kore.

47 "Nā, ko taua pononga, i mōhio nei ki tā tōna rangatira i pai ai, ā, kīhai i whakaaro wawe, kīhai hoki i mea i tāna i pai ai, he maha ngā whiu mōna. 48 Tēnā, ko ia kīhai i mōhio, ā, i mahi i ngā mea e tika ai kia whiua, he torutoru ngā whiu mōna. Ko te tangata hoki i nui te hoatutanga ki a ia he nui anō hei hōmaitanga māna; ā, ko te tangata i nui te tukunga ki a ia, hira noa atu te mea e tonoa i a ia."

Ko Īhu te Pūtake o te Wehewehenga

49 "I haere mai ahau ki te maka kāpura ki te whenua; ā, ka pēhea ahau, mehemea kua kā kē? 50 Otirā, he iriiringa tōku e iriiria ai ahau; anō tōku tākarekare kia oti rā anō! 51 E mea ana rānei koutou, i haere mai ahau ki te hōmai i te rangimārire ki te whenua? Tēnei tāku kupu ki a koutou, kāhore; engari i te wehewehe. 52 Hei ngā rā hoki e takoto ake nei ka tokorima i roto i te whare kotahi, ā, ka tahuri ki a rātou anō, tokotoru ki te tokorua, tokorua ki te tokotoru. 53 Ka tahuri atu te pāpā ki te tama, te tama ki te pāpā, te whaea ki te tamāhine, te tamāhine ki tōna whaea, te hungawai wahine ki tāna hunaonga wahine, me te hunaonga wahine ki tōna hungawai wahine."

Te Mātau ki te Wā

54 Ā, i mea anō ia ki ngā mano, "Ka kite koutou i te kapua e puta mai ana i te hauāuru, nā, mea tonu ake koutou, ‘He ua te haere mai nei,’ ā, ko ia anō ia. 55 Ka kite koutou i te tonga e pupuhi ana, ka mea koutou, ‘Meāke ko te werawera,’ ā, ko ia anō ia. 56 E te hunga tinihanga, e mātau ana koutou ki te titiro ki te mata o te whenua, o te rangi; he aha koutou tē mātau ai ki te titiro ki tēnei tāima?"

Whakaritea tōu Hoa Tauwhāinga

57 "Ā, he aha koutou tē whakaaro noa ake ai i te mea tika? 58 I a kōrua ko tōu hoa tauwhāinga e haere ana ki te kaiwhakawā, hei te huarahi anō kia kaha te mea kia makere atu ia i a koe; kei tōia koe e ia ki te kaiwhakawā, ā, ka tukua koe e te kaiwhakawā ki te kātipa, ā, ka makā koe e te kātipa ki te whare herehere. 59 Ko tāku kupu tēnei ki a koe, E kore rawa koe e puta mai i reira, kia poto rā anō ngā moni iti rawa te utu e koe."