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Luke 12:32

New Living Translation

“So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.

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He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young.

Though you are a lowly worm, O Jacob, don’t be afraid, people of Israel, for I will help you. I am the Lord, your Redeemer. I am the Holy One of Israel.’

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.

“I thought to myself, ‘I would love to treat you as my own children!’ I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land— the finest possession in the world. I looked forward to your calling me ‘Father,’ and I wanted you never to turn from me.

But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage. I am here!”

“So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

“Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves.

At that same time Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, and he said, “O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way.

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.”

“So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church, purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as leaders.

I know that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do.

And God will use this persecution to show his justice and to make you worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.

Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe.

Listen to me, dear brothers and sisters. Hasn’t God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith? Aren’t they the ones who will inherit the Kingdom he promised to those who love him?

Then God will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

He has made us a Kingdom of priests for God his Father. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

And there will be no night there—no need for lamps or sun—for the Lord God will shine on them. And they will reign forever and ever.




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