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Luke 12:11-17 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

11. But when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you should speak in your own defense or what you should say,

12. for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what it is necessary to say.”

13. Now someone from the crowd 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. And he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not even when someone has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.”

16. And he told a parable to them, saying, “The land of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.

17. And he reasoned to himself, saying, ‘What should I do? For I do not have anywhere I can gather in my crops.’

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