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Luke 12:48-54 Good News Bible (GNB)

48. But the servant who does not know what his master wants, and yet does something for which he deserves a whipping, will be punished with a light whipping. Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given.

49. “I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already kindled!

50. I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over!

51. Do you suppose that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace, but division.

52. From now on a family of five will be divided, three against two and two against three.

53. Fathers will be against their sons, and sons against their fathers; mothers will be against their daughters, and daughters against their mothers; mothers-in-law will be against their daughters-in-law, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law.”

54. Jesus said also to the people, “When you see a cloud coming up in the west, at once you say that it is going to rain — and it does.

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