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Luke 16 NASB 1977
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Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“And the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>‘I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the stewardship, they will receive me into their homes.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“And he summoned each one of his master’s debtors, and he <i>began</i> saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“And his master praised the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“If therefore you have not been faithful in the <i>use of</i> unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true <i>riches</i> to you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“And if you have not been faithful in <i>the use of</i> that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things, and they were scoffing at Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“The Law and the Prophets <i>were proclaimed</i> until John; since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. <p><b><i>The Rich Man and Lazarus</i></b><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Now there was a certain rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, gaily living in splendor every day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“And a certain poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and longing to be fed with the <i>crumbs</i> which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Now it came about that the poor man died and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>‘And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, in order that those who wish to come over from here to you may not be able, and <i>that</i> none may cross over from there to us.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“And he said, ‘Then I beg you, Father, that you send him to my father’s house— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“But he said, ‘No, Father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”</div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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