10. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
11. “When they bring you to the synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not be anxious how you will answer or what you will say.
12. For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”
13. Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14. Jesus said to him, “Man, who appointed Me a judge or an arbitrator between you?”
15. Then He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness. For a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
16. And He told a parable to them, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully.
17. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have no room to store my crops?’
18. “Then he said, ‘This I will do: I will pull down my barns and build greater ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take rest. Eat, drink, and be merry.’
20. “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This night your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
21. “So is he who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
22. Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor for your body, what you will wear.
23. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.
24. Consider the ravens: They neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouses nor barns. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds?
25. Who of you by worrying can add one cubit to his height?
26. If you then cannot do what is least, why are you anxious about the other things?
27. “Consider how the lilies grow. They neither spin nor weave. Yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28. If God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
29. And do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink, nor be of an anxious mind.
30. For the nations of the world seek all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.