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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/luke/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Sin, Faith, Duty</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jesus said to his disciples: <span class="red">“Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.</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 for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.</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 your brother or sister <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman.">a</a></sup></span> sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”</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, “Increase our faith!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He replied, <span class="red">“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will 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">“Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.">b</a></sup></span> met him. They stood at a distance <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When he saw them, he said, <span class="red">“Go, show yourselves to the priests.”</span> And as they went, they were cleansed.</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 he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he 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">“Were not all ten cleansed? 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 praise to God except this foreigner?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he said to him, <span class="red">“Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">The Coming of the Kingdom of God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, <span class="red">“The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or is within you">c</a></sup></span> </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 one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not 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, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">For the Son of Man in his day <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts do not have in his day.">d</a></sup></span> will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">But first he must suffer many things 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">“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then 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">“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">“It will be just like this on the day 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 no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">Remember Lot’s wife!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and 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 grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-36.htm"><b>[36]</b></a></span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 24:40.">e</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/17-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“Where, Lord?” they asked.</p><p class="reg">He replied, <span class="red">“Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word for <i>brother or sister</i> (<i>adelphos</i>) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word traditionally translated <i>leprosy</i> was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>is within you</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts do not have <i>in his day.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 24:40.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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