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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 Worrell New Testament</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="../">WOR</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Worrell New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/luke/16-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Shrewd Manager<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And He said also to His disciples, <FR>"There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused to him as squandering his goods.<Fr> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><FR>And, calling him, he said to him, 'What <i>is</i> this I hear of you? Render the account of your stewardship; for you can be no longer steward.'<Fr> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><FR>And the steward said in himself, 'What shall I do? because my lord takes away the stewardship from me! To dig, I have not strength; to beg, I am ashamed!<Fr> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><FR>I resolved what to do; that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.'<Fr> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><FR>And, calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my lord?'<Fr> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><FR>And he said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your accounts, and, sitting down, quickly write, Fifty.'<Fr> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><FR>After that he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He says to him, 'Take your accounts, and write, Four score.'<Fr> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><FR>And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness, because he acted prudently; because the sons of this age are more prudent toward their own generation, than the sons of light.<Fr> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><FR>And I say to you, make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting tabernacles.<Fr><p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><FR><i>He that is</i> faithful in <i>the</i> least is faithful also in much; he that is unrighteous in <i>the</i> least is unrighteous in much.<Fr> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><FR>If, therefore, ye were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true <i>riches?</i><Fr> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><FR>And, if ye were not faithful in that which is another's, who will give to you your own?<Fr> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><FR>No domestic can serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to one, and despise the other: ye cannot serve God and mammon."<Fr><p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">The Law and the Prophets<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were openly mocking Him. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And He said to them, <FR>"Ye are those who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; because that <i>which</i> is exalted among men is an abomination before God.<Fr><p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><FR>"The law and the prophets <i>were</i> until John; from that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is proclaimed, and every one presses into it by force!<Fr> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><FR>But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.<Fr><p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><FR>"Every one who puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries <i>a woman</i> divorced from her husband, commits adultery.<Fr><p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">The Rich Man and Lazarus<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../john/5.htm#39">John 5:39–47</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><FR>"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day.<Fr> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><FR>And a certain poor man, Lazarus by name, had been laid at his gate, full of sores,<Fr> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><FR>and desiring to be fed with the <i>crumbs</i> falling from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.<Fr> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><FR>And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried;<Fr> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><FR>and in Hades, lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.<Fr> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><FR>And, crying, he 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; because I am in anguish in this flame!'<Fr> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><FR>But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that, in your lifetime, you received in full your good things, and Lazarus, likewise, evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.<Fr> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><FR>And, in all these things, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed; so that those wishing to cross from hence to you cannot; nor do they pass from thence to us.'<Fr> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><FR>And he said, 'I pray you, therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;<Fr> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><FR>for I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.'<Fr> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><FR>But Abraham says, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'<Fr> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><FR>But he said, 'Nay, father Abraham; but, if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.'<Fr> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><FR>But he said to him, 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rose from the dead.'"<Fr><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Worrell New Testament (1904)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../luke/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Luke 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Luke 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../luke/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Luke 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Luke 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>