"This is why I tell you: do not be worried about the food and drink you need in order to stay alive, or about clothes for your body. After all, isn't life worth more than food? And isn't the body worth more than clothes?

Satan replied, "A person will give up everything in order to stay alive.

Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.

Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.

Someone who is on the roof of a house must not lose time by going down into the house to get anything to take along.

Someone who is in the field must not go back to the house for a cloak.

"On that day someone who is on the roof of a house must not go down into the house to get any belongings; in the same way anyone who is out in the field must not go back to the house.

Those who try to save their own life will lose it; those who lose their life will save it.

What I am telling you in the dark you must repeat in broad daylight, and what you have heard in private you must announce from the housetops.

"When you build a new house, be sure to put a railing around the edge of the roof. Then you will not be responsible if someone falls off and is killed.