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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Luke 16 WEB</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="../">WEB</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">World English Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/heb/luke/16.shtml"> [Par] </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Unrighteous Steward</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.” </p> <a name="14" id="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Law and the Prophets<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/11.htm#7">Matthew 11:7-19</a>; <a href="../luke/1.htm#5">Luke 1:5-25</a>; <a href="../luke/7.htm#24">Luke 7:24-35</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall. </p> <a name="18" id="18"></a><p class="hdg">Divorce<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../deuteronomy/24.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1-5</a>; <a href="../matthew/5.htm#31">Matthew 5:31-32</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. </p> <a name="19" id="19"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../john/5.htm#39">John 5:39-47</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house— <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’” </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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