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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 17 NLT</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/17.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/17-1.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="../">NLT</a> > Luke 17</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/16.htm" title="Luke 16">◄</a> Luke 17 <a href="../luke/18.htm" title="Luke 18">►</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/luke/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Teachings about Forgiveness and Faith</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>One day Jesus said to his disciples, <span class="red">“There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">So watch yourselves!</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="red">“If another believer<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The Lord answered, <span class="red">“If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you!</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">“When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, ‘Come in and eat with me’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">No, he says, ‘Prepare my meal, put on your apron, and serve me while I eat. Then you can eat later.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’”</span></p><p class="hdg">Ten Healed of Leprosy</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As he entered a village there, ten men with leprosy stood at a distance, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>crying out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He looked at them and said, <span class="red">“Go show yourselves to the priests.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></span> And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He fell to the ground at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Jesus asked, <span class="red">“Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Jesus said to the man, <span class="red">“Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a>”</span></p><p class="hdg">The Coming of the Kingdom</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God come?”</p><p class="reg">Jesus replied, <span class="red">“The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a>”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then he said to his disciples, <span class="red">“The time is coming when you will long to see the day when the Son of Man returns,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> but you won’t see it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> when the Son of Man comes.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> and be rejected by this generation.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">“When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">“And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">Remember what happened to Lot’s wife!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a>”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“Where will this happen, Lord?”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">j</span></a> the disciples asked.</p><p class="reg">Jesus replied, <span class="red">“Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">k</span></a></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">If your brother.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:14 </span><span class="ft">See Lev 14:2-32.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Your faith has saved you.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">by your speculations.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">is within you,</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">is in your grasp.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">long for even one day with the Son of Man.</span><span class="ft"> “Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for himself.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not include </span><span class="it">on the day.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">suffer many things.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:35 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add verse 36, </span><span class="it">Two men will be working in the field; one will be taken, the other left.</span><span class="ft"> Compare Matt 24:40.</span><br><span class="fn">j</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:37a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">“Where, Lord?”</span><br><span class="fn">k</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:37b </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">“Wherever the carcass is, the vultures gather.”</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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