120. Certain Instructions Following This. Lk. 12:1–12

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the crowd had gathered that they were trampling one another, He began to say to His disciples first: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

And I say to you, My friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after that have nothing more they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear Him. Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? And not one of them is forgotten before God. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

And I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the Angels of God. But he who denies Me before men will be denied before the Angels of God.

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.

And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you are to answer or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.