Luke 12:1

New International Reader's Version

During that time a crowd of many thousands had gathered. There were so many people that they were stepping on one another. Jesus spoke first to his disciples. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees,” he said. “They just pretend to be godly.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:17

The king had put an officer in charge of the city gate. He was the officer on whose arm the king leaned. On their way out of the city, the people knocked the officer down. In the entrance of the gate he was crushed as they walked on top of him. And so he died. That’s exactly what the man of God had said would happen. He had said it when the king came down to his house.

Job 20:5

Those who are evil are happy for only a short time. The joy of ungodly people lasts only for a moment.

Job 27:8

What hope do ungodly people have when their lives are cut short? What hope do they have when God takes away their lives?

Job 36:13

“Those whose hearts are ungodly are always angry. Even when God puts them in chains, they don’t cry out for help.

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are terrified. They tremble with fear. They say, ‘Who of us can live through the Lord’s destroying fire? Who of us can live through the fire that burns forever?’

Luke 11:44

“How terrible for you! You are like graves that are not marked. People walk over them without knowing it.”

Luke 12:56

You pretenders! You know how to understand the appearance of the earth and the sky. Why can’t you understand the meaning of what is happening right now?

Luke 5:1

One day Jesus was standing by the Sea of Galilee. The people crowded around him and listened to the word of God.

Luke 5:15

But the news about Jesus spread even more. So crowds of people came to hear him. They also came to be healed of their sicknesses.

Luke 6:17

Jesus went down the mountain with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there. A large number of other people were there too. They came from all over Judea, including Jerusalem. They also came from the coastland around Tyre and Sidon.

Acts 21:20

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they spoke to Paul. “Brother,” they said, “you see that thousands of Jews have become believers. All of them try very hard to obey the law.

1 Corinthians 15:3

What I received I passed on to you. And it is the most important of all. Here is what it is. Christ died for our sins, just as Scripture said he would.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion. You have come to the city of the living God. This is the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to a joyful gathering of angels. There are thousands and thousands of them.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is pure. That’s the most important thing about it. And that’s not all. It also loves peace. It thinks about others. It obeys. It is full of mercy and good fruit. It is fair. It doesn’t pretend to be what it is not.

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of every kind of evil, and stop telling lies. Don’t pretend to be something you are not. Stop wanting what others have, and don’t speak against one another.