Luke Chapter 16

• Luke 16:1
  Luke.
• Luke 16:2
  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 possession...
• Luke 16:3
  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.’
• Luke 16:4
  “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...
• Luke 16:5
  I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’
• Luke 16:6
  Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
• Luke 16:7
  He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
• Luke 16:8
  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.’
• Luke 16:9
  “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 chil...
• Luke 16:10
  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.
• Luke 16:11
  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.
• Luke 16:12
  If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
• Luke 16:13
  If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
• Luke 16:14
  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 ab...
• Luke 16:15
  The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• Luke 16:16
  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 abomi...
• Luke 16:17
  “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.
• Luke 16:18
  But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
• Luke 16:19
  “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
• Luke 16:20
  “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Luke 16:21
  A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
• Luke 16:22
  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.
• Luke 16:23
  The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
• Luke 16:24
  In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
• Luke 16:25
  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...
• Luke 16:26
  “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 ...
• Luke 16:27
  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...
• Luke 16:28
  “He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—
• Luke 16:29
  for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
• Luke 16:30
  “But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
• Luke 16:31
  “He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
• Luke 16:32
  “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.’”