Berean Bible

Luke

16

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1 Now also He was saying to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and was accused unto him as he is wasting his possessions. 2 And having called him, he said to him, ‘What is this I hear concerning you? Give the account of your stewardship, for you are not able to manage any longer.’ 3 And the manager said within himself, ‘What shall I do, for my master is taking away the management from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 I know what I will do, so that when I shall have been removed from the management, they might receive me into their homes.’ 5 And having summoned each one of his master’s debtors, he was saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my master?’ 6 And he said, ‘A hundred baths of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and having sat down quickly, write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’ 8 And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd than the sons of the light in their own generation. 9 And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails, they might receive you into the eternal dwellings. 10 The one faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. 11 If therefore you have not been faithful in unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true? 12 And unless you have been faithful in that which is of another, who will give to you that which is yours? 13 No servant is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and he will love the other, or he will be devoted to one and he will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and mammon.” 14 Now the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were listening to all these things, and they were ridiculing Him. 15 And He said to them, “You are those justifying themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God. 16 The Law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone forces his way into it. 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail. 18 Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery. And the one marrying her put away from a husband commits adultery. 19 And there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendor every day. 20 And a certain poor man named Lazarus, being full of sores, was laid at his gate 21 and desiring to be fed from that falling from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs, coming, were licking his sores. 22 And it came to pass that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. 23 And in Hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he sees Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And having cried out, he said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he might dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am suffering in this flame.’ 25 And Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you did fully receive your good things in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise the evil things. But now he is comforted here, and you are suffering. 26 And besides all these things, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those desiring to pass from here to you are not able, nor can they pass from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I implore you, father, that you would send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he might warn them, that they also might not come to this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham says, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, not even will they be persuaded if one should rise out from the dead.’”
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