路 加 福 音 16
Chinese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version
真正的财富
16 耶稣对门徒们说∶“从前，某财主有一个管家，有人告这个管家的状，说他挥霍主人的钱财， 2 于是，那个财主就把管家叫来，问他∶‘我听说的是怎么一回事呢？把你经管的事情向我作一个交待，因为我不让你再当管家了。’ 3 管家心想∶‘我该怎么办呢？我的主人辞掉我管家的职务，可我又没有力气去锄地；也羞于去讨饭。 4 我知道我该怎么办了，那样当主人辞掉我管家的职务时，人们将把我接到他们家里去。’ 5 于是，他把债户一一叫来。他对第一个人说∶‘你欠我的主人多少呢？’那个人说： 6 ‘一百桶橄榄油。’于是管家对他说‘这是你的账单，坐下来，赶快改写成五十桶。’ 7 然后，他又对另一个人欠债的人说∶‘你呢，你欠多少？’那个人说∶‘一百担麦子。’管家说∶‘这是你的账单，坐下来，改写八十担。’ 8 主人得知这件事后，把这个不诚实的管家夸奖了一番，因为他做事精明。是啊，这个世界的人们在处理他们自己的事务时，要比光明磊落的人们精明的多。
9 “我告诉你们吧，要用尘世的财富为你们自己广交朋友，所以，当钱财用尽的时候，你的朋友们就会把你接到永恒的家里去。 10 在小事上诚实的人，在大事上也会诚实；在小事上不诚实的人，在大事上也会不诚实。 11 如果你们在处理世间的财富上都得不到信赖，那么谁会把真正的财富托付给你们呢？ 12 如果你们在处理属于别人的东西上得不到信赖，那么，谁又会把你们自己的东西给你们呢？
13 “你们不能同时服侍两个主人，你们会恨这个，爱那个；或者忠诚一个，轻视另一个，你们不可能同时既侍奉上帝、又侍奉金钱。”
上帝的律法不能更改
14 那些喜爱金钱的法利赛人听到这里，就讥笑耶稣。 15 耶稣便对他们说∶“你们这些人在人们面前装好人，但是，上帝知道你们的内心。因为，世人看重的事情对上帝却毫无价值。 16 律法和先知的著作直到约翰的到来都是有约束力的。自从约翰的到来，上帝的王国的福音得到了传播，很多人都拼命的想进去。 17 然而，天地的消逝比涂抹律法的一笔一划还要容易。
离婚和再婚
18 “任何男人与妻子离了婚，又另娶别的女人，他就犯了通奸罪；娶了离了婚的女人的男人也犯了通奸罪。
富人与拉撒路
19 “从前，有一个富人，每天穿着华丽的衣服，过着奢侈享乐的生活。 20 有一个名字叫拉撒路的穷人，他浑身生疮，常常躺在财主家的大门口。 21 他每天都盼望着用财主桌上掉下来的残羹剩饭充饥，甚至连狗都跑过来舔他的疮。 22 后来，这个可怜的人死了，天使把他抬到了亚伯拉罕的身边。然后，那个财主也死了，并被埋葬， 23 在地狱里他受着折磨，他抬头望去，看到了远处的亚伯拉罕，还看到了拉撒路站在他的身边。 24 财主便大喊道∶‘我父亚伯拉罕，可怜可怜我吧！请派拉撒路来吧，好让他用指头蘸点水，凉凉我的舌头吧，因为我在这火焰里痛苦不堪！’ 25 但是，亚伯拉罕说∶‘我的儿子，你要记住，你在生前，享受了一切美好的事物，而拉撒路却受尽了苦难。但是，现在他在这里舒舒服服的，而你却在痛苦之中。 26 不仅仅如此，而且我们和你们之间有一道深沟，所以，我这边想过去的人过不去，你们那边想过来的人也过不来。’ 27 财主说∶‘如果是这样的话，我乞求您，父亲，派拉撒路到我父亲家去， 28 因为我有五个兄弟，让拉撒路告诫他们，以便将来他们不会到这个受尽折磨的地方来。’ 29 但是，亚伯拉罕说∶‘他们有摩西的律法和先知的著作，让你的兄弟去听从它们的话吧。’ 30 那个财主又说∶‘不行啊，父亚伯拉罕，如果让死人到他们那里去，他们才会悔改。’ 31 亚伯拉罕对他说∶‘如果他们不听摩西和先知的教导，即使有人从死里复活，也不会使他们信服的。’”
Luke 16
International Children’s Bible
True Wealth
16 Jesus also said to his followers, “Once there was a rich man. He had a manager to take care of his business. Later, the rich man learned that his manager was cheating him. 2 So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘I have heard bad things about you. Give me a report of what you have done with my money. You can’t be my manager any longer!’ 3 Later, the manager thought to himself, ‘What will I do? My master is taking my job away from me! I am not strong enough to dig ditches. I am too proud to beg. 4 I know! I’ll do something so that when I lose my job, people will welcome me into their homes.’
5 “So the manager called in everyone who owed the master any money. He said to the first man, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 The man answered, ‘I owe him 800 gallons of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Here is your bill; sit down quickly and make the bill less. Write 400 gallons.’ 7 Then the manager said to another man, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ The man answered, ‘I owe him 1,000 bushels of wheat.’ Then the manager said to him, ‘Here is your bill; you can make it less. Write 800 bushels.’ 8 Later, the master praised the dishonest manager for being smart. Yes, worldly people are smarter with their own kind than spiritual people are.
9 “I tell you, make friends for yourselves using worldly riches. Then, when those things are gone, you will be welcomed in that home that continues forever. 10 Whoever can be trusted with small things can also be trusted with large things. Whoever is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in large things too. 11 If you cannot be trusted with worldly riches, then you will not be trusted with the true riches. 12 And if you cannot be trusted with the things that belong to someone else, then you will not be given things of your own.
13 “No servant can serve two masters. He will hate one master and love the other. Or he will follow one master and refuse to follow the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
God’s Law Cannot Be Changed
14 The Pharisees were listening to all these things. They made fun of Jesus because they all loved money. 15 Jesus said to them, “You make yourselves look good in front of people. But God knows what is really in your hearts. The things that are important to people are worth nothing to God.
16 “God wanted the people to live by the law of Moses and the writings of the prophets. But ever since John[a] came, the Good News about the kingdom of God is being told. Now everyone is trying hard to get into the kingdom. 17 Even the smallest part of a letter in the law cannot be changed. It would be easier for heaven and earth to pass away.
Divorce and Remarriage
18 “If a man divorces his wife and marries another woman, he is guilty of adultery. And the man who marries a divorced woman is also guilty of adultery.”
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 Jesus said, “There was a rich man who always dressed in the finest clothes. He lived in luxury every day. 20 There was also a very poor man named Lazarus, whose body was covered with sores. Lazarus was often placed at the rich man’s gate. 21 He wanted to eat only the small pieces of food that fell from the rich man’s table. And the dogs would come and lick his sores! 22 Later, Lazarus died. The angels took Lazarus and placed him in the arms of Abraham. The rich man died, too, and was buried. 23 But he was sent to where the dead are and had much pain. The rich man saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his arms. 24 He called, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to me so that he can dip his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am suffering in this fire!’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘My child, remember when you lived? You had all the good things in life, but all the bad things happened to Lazarus. Now Lazarus is comforted here, and you are suffering. 26 Also, there is a big pit between you and us. No one can cross over to help you. And no one can leave there and come here.’ 27 The rich man said, ‘Then please send Lazarus to my father’s house on earth! 28 I have five brothers. Lazarus could warn my brothers so that they will not come to this place of pain.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have the law of Moses and the writings of the prophets to read; let them learn from them!’ 30 The rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham! If someone came to them from the dead, they would believe and change their hearts and lives.’ 31 But Abraham said to him, ‘No! If your brothers won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, then they won’t listen to someone who comes back from death.’”
Luke 16
King James Version
16 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And 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 tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
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