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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 16 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Luke 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/15.htm" title="Luke 15">◄</a> Luke 16 <a href="../luke/17.htm" title="Luke 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/luke/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Parable of the Dishonest Manager</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>He also said to the disciples, <span class="woc">“There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="woc">And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="woc">And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="woc">I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="woc">So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="woc">He said, ‘A hundred measures<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="About 875 gallons or 3,200 liters">a</a></sup></span> of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="woc">Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Between 1,000 and 1,200 bushels or 37,000 to 45,000 liters">b</a></sup></span> of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="woc">The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek age">c</a></sup></span> are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="woc">And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions; also verse 11; rendered money in verse 13">d</a></sup></span> so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="woc">“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="woc">If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="woc">And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="woc">No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”</span></p> <p class="heading">The Law and the Kingdom of God</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he said to them, <span class="woc">“You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="woc">“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or everyone is forcefully urged into it">e</a></sup></span></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="woc">But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.</span></p> <p class="heading">Divorce and Remarriage</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woc">“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.</span></p> <p class="heading">The Rich Man and Lazarus</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="woc">“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="woc">And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="woc">who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="woc">The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek bosom; also verse 23">f</a></sup></span> The rich man also died and was buried,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="woc">and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="woc">And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="woc">But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="woc">And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="woc">And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="woc">for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="woc">But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="woc">And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="woc">He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> About 875 gallons or 3,200 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Between 1,000 and 1,200 bushels or 37,000 to 45,000 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Greek <i>age</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Greek <i language="Greek">mammon</i>, a Semitic word for money or possessions; also verse 11; rendered <i>money</i> in verse 13<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">everyone</span> is forcefully urged into it</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Greek <i>bosom</i>; also verse 23<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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