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Luke 12:11-17 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

11. “When they bring you to be tried in the synagogues or before governors or rulers, do not be worried about how you will defend yourself or what you will say.

12. For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

13. A man in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the property our father left us.”

14. Jesus answered him, “My friend, who gave me the right to judge or to divide the property between you two?”

15. And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because a person's true life is not made up of the things he owns, no matter how rich he may be.”

16. Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops.

17. He began to think to himself, ‘I haven't anywhere to keep all my crops. What can I do?

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