[Luke 16]

 

             ^16:1 Now he also was saying to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward, and this one was indicted by him as one squandering his possessions. ^16:2 And he summoned him and said to him, What is this thing which I am hearing concerning you? Give me the account of your stewardship; for^* you will not still be able to be a steward.

             ^16:3 But the steward said in himself, What should I do^*, because my lord is taking away the stewardship from me? I am not strong-enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ^16:4 I have known what I should be doing^*, in-order-that whenever I should be removed from the stewardship, they may accept me into their houses. ^16:5 And he called to him each one of his lord’s debtors and was saying to the first, How-much do you owe to my lord?

             ^16:6 Now he said, A hundred eight-gallon-containers of oil.

             And he said to him, Accept your writing {i.e., contract} and after you have sat down, quickly write fifty.

             ^16:7 Thereafter, he said to a different one, and how-much do you owe?

             Now he said, A hundred twelve-bushel-containers of grain.

             And he says to him, Accept your writing {i.e., contract} and write eighty.

             ^16:8 And his lord praised the steward of unrighteousness because he did^* prudently, because the sons of this world are more prudent toward their own generation; even beyond the sons of the light.

             ^16:9 And I say to you^°, Make^*° friends for yourselves out-of the money of unrighteousness; in-order-that, whenever you^° fail, they may accept you^° into the everlasting tabernacles. ^16:10 The faithful in the least matters is also faithful in much, and the unrighteous in the least matters is also unrighteous in much. ^16:11 Therefore, if you^° did not become faithful in the unrighteous money, who will be entrusting the true^* riches to you^°? ^16:12 And if you^° did not become faithful in what is another’s, who will be giving you^° what is yours^°? ^16:13 No domestic servant is able to serve^* two lords; for^* either he will hate the one and will love^* the other; or he will hold to one and despise the other. You^° are not able to serve^* God and money.

 

             ^16:14 Now the Pharisees, who are^* money-lovers, were also hearing all these things, and they were ridiculing him. ^16:15 And he said to them, You^° are the ones making yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your^° hearts, because the thing exalted among men is an abomination in God’s sight.

             ^16:16 The law and the prophets were until John; from then the good-news of the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone violently-enters into it. ^16:17 But it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass-away, than for one serif of the law to fall short. ^16:18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries a different one is committing adultery, and everyone who marries the one who has been divorced from a husband, is committing adultery. {Mat 5:32, 19:9}

 

             ^16:19 Now there was a certain rich man and he was clothing himself in purple and fine-linen, being radiantly joyous daily. ^16:20 Now there was a certain poor man, Lazarus by name, who had been put before his gate, full of sores, ^16:21 and desiring to be fully-fed from the falling crumbs of the rich man’s table. But even the dogs, coming to him, were licking his sores.

               ^16:22 Now it happened for the poor man to die and for him to be carried away by the messengers into Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried. ^16:23 And he lifted up his eyes in Hades, being^* in torments, and sees Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosoms. {This is literally plural.}

             ^16:24 And he himself shouted and said, Father Abraham, show-mercy to me, and send Lazarus in-order-that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and may cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this flame.

             ^16:25 But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise evil things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. ^16:26 And over all these things, a great chasm has been established between us and you^°, ^*that the ones wishing to cross over from here to you^° may not be able, nor may they ferry over from there to us. ^16:27 But he said, Therefore, father, I am requesting him in-order-that you should send him to my father’s house; ^16:28 for^* I have five brethren; ^*that he may thoroughly testify to them in-order-that they themselves may not even come into this place of torment.

             ^16:29 Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let^° them hear them.

             ^16:30 But he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone travels to them from the dead, they will be repenting.

             ^16:31 But he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if someone rises^* up from the dead.