Luke 12:1-12

Fear Only God

At this time, after ¹so many thousands of the crowd had gathered together that they were trampling on one another, He began saying to His disciples first, “^aBe on your guard for the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 ^aBut there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. 3 Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have ¹whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon ^athe housetops.
4 “But I say to you, ^aMy friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will show you whom to fear: ^afear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into ¹^bhell; yes, I tell you, fear Him! 6 Are not ^afive sparrows sold for two ¹assaria? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. 7 ^aIndeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

8 “And I say to you, everyone who ^aconfesses Me before men, the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God, 9 but ^ahe who denies Me before men will be denied ^bbefore the angels of God. 10 ^aAnd everyone who ¹speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him, but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him. 11 Now when they bring you before ^athe synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not ^bworry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say, 12 for ^athe Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

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