路加福音 16
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
不义的管家
16 耶稣又对门徒说：“有一个财主的管家，有人在他主人面前告他浪费主人的财物。 2 主人把他叫来，对他说：‘我听见关于你的是怎么一回事呢？把你管理的帐目交代清楚，因为你不能再作管家了。’ 3 那管家心里说：‘主人不要我再作管家了，我作甚么才好呢？锄地吧，没有力气！讨饭吧，怕羞！ 4 我知道要怎么作了，好使人在我离开管家的职务以后，接我到他们家里去。’ 5 于是把欠他主人债的人，一个一个地叫来，问头一个说：‘你欠我主人多少？’ 6 他说：‘四千公升油。’管家说：‘拿你的欠单去，快坐下写二千。’ 7 又问一个说：‘你欠多少？’他说：‘四万公升麦子。’管家说：‘拿你的欠单去，写三万。’ 8 主人就夸奖这不义的管家作事机警；因为在应付自己的世事上，今世之子比光明之子更精明。 9 我告诉你们，要用不义的钱财（“钱财”亚兰文是“玛门”）去结交朋友，好叫钱财无用的时候，他们可以接你们到永恒的帐棚里。 10 在最小的事上忠心的，在大事上也忠心；在最小的事上不义的，在大事上也不义。 11 如果你们在不义的钱财上不忠心，谁还把真实的钱财托付给你们呢？ 12 如果你们在别人的东西上不忠心，谁还把你们自己的东西交给你们呢？
不能服事两个主人(A)
13 “一个家仆不能服事两个主人；他若不是恨这个爱那个，就是忠于这个轻视那个。你们不能服事 神，又服事金钱。” 14 贪财的法利赛人听见这些话，就嗤笑耶稣。 15 耶稣对他们说：“你们在人面前自称为义， 神却知道你们的心；因为人所高举的， 神却看作是可憎恶的。 16 律法和先知到约翰就结束了。从此， 神的国的福音就传开了，人人都要努力进去。 17 天地过去，要比律法的一点一画失效还容易呢。 18 凡休妻另娶的，就犯了奸淫；娶被丈夫所休的，也是犯了奸淫。
财主与拉撒路
19 “有一个财主，身穿紫色袍和细麻衣，天天奢华宴乐。 20 又有一个乞丐，名叫拉撒路，满身是疮，被人放在财主门口， 21 想得财主桌子上掉下来的零碎充饥；并且有狗来舔他的疮。 22 后来乞丐死了，被天使送到亚伯拉罕的怀里。那财主也死了，并且埋葬了。 23 财主在阴间受痛苦，举目远远望见亚伯拉罕，和他怀里的拉撒路， 24 就喊着说：‘我祖亚伯拉罕啊，可怜我吧！打发拉撒路来用指头蘸点水，凉凉我的舌头吧！因为我在这火焰里非常痛苦。’ 25 亚伯拉罕说：‘孩子，你应该回想你生前享过福，同样拉撒路受过苦，现在他在这里得安慰，你却要受苦了。 26 不但这样，我们与你们之间，有深渊隔开，人想从这边过到你们那里是不可能的，从那边过到我们这边也是不可能的。’ 27 那人说：‘我祖啊，那么求你差遣拉撒路到我家里去， 28 因为我有五个兄弟，他可以警告他们，免得他们也到这受苦的地方来。’ 29 亚伯拉罕说：‘他们有摩西和先知可以听从。’ 30 他说：‘不然，我祖亚伯拉罕啊，如果有人从死人中复活，到他们那里去，他们必定会悔改。’ 31 亚伯拉罕说：‘如果他们不听从摩西和先知，就算有一个从死人中复活的人，他们也不会接受劝告。’”
Luke 16
Living Bible
16 Jesus now told this story to his disciples: “A rich man hired an accountant to handle his affairs, but soon a rumor went around that the accountant was thoroughly dishonest.
2 “So his employer called him in and said, ‘What’s this I hear about your stealing from me? Get your report in order, for you are to be dismissed.’
3 “The accountant thought to himself, ‘Now what? I’m through here, and I haven’t the strength to go out and dig ditches, and I’m too proud to beg. 4 I know just the thing! And then I’ll have plenty of friends to take care of me when I leave!’
5-6 “So he invited each one who owed money to his employer to come and discuss the situation. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe him?’ ‘My debt is 850 gallons of olive oil,’ the man replied. ‘Yes, here is the contract you signed,’ the accountant told him. ‘Tear it up and write another one for half that much!’
7 “‘And how much do you owe him?’ he asked the next man. ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ was the reply. ‘Here,’ the accountant said, ‘take your note and replace it with one for only 800 bushels!’
8 “The rich man had to admire the rascal for being so shrewd.[a] And it is true that the citizens of this world are more clever in dishonesty than the godly are. 9
13 “For neither you nor anyone else can serve two masters. You will hate one and show loyalty to the other, or else the other way around—you will be enthusiastic about one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
14 The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money, naturally scoffed at all this.
15 Then he said to them, “You wear a noble, pious expression in public, but God knows your evil hearts. Your pretense brings you honor from the people, but it is an abomination in the sight of God. 16 Until John the Baptist began to preach, the laws of Moses and the messages of the prophets were your guides. But John introduced the Good News that the Kingdom of God would come soon. And now eager multitudes are pressing in. 17 But that doesn’t mean that the Law has lost its force in even the smallest point. It is as strong and unshakable as heaven and earth.
18 “So anyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”
19 “There was a certain rich man,” Jesus said, “who was splendidly clothed and lived each day in mirth and luxury. 20 One day Lazarus, a diseased beggar, was laid at his door. 21 As he lay there longing for scraps from the rich man’s table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores. 22 Finally the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham in the place of the righteous dead.[c] The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went into hell.[d] There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham.
24 “‘Father Abraham,’ he shouted, ‘have some pity! Send Lazarus over here if only to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.’
25 “But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted and you are in anguish. 26 And besides, there is a great chasm separating us, and anyone wanting to come to you from here is stopped at its edge; and no one over there can cross to us.’
27 “Then the rich man said, ‘O Father Abraham, then please send him to my father’s home— 28 for I have five brothers—to warn them about this place of torment lest they come here when they die.’
29 “But Abraham said, ‘The Scriptures have warned them again and again. Your brothers can read them any time they want to.’
30 “The rich man replied, ‘No, Father Abraham, they won’t bother to read them. But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will turn from their sins.’
31 “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t listen even though someone rises from the dead.’”[e]
Footnotes
- Luke 16:8 The rich man had to admire the rascal for being so shrewd, or “Do you think the rich man commended the scoundrel for being so shrewd?” in dishonesty, implied. godly, literally, “sons of the light.”
- Luke 16:9 Will this ensure your entry into an everlasting home in heaven? literally, and probably ironically, “Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when it shall fail you, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.” Some commentators would interpret this to mean: “Use your money for good, so that it will be waiting to befriend you when you get to heaven.” But this would imply the end justifies the means, an unbiblical idea.
- Luke 16:22 to be with Abraham in the place of the righteous dead, literally, “into Abraham’s bosom.”
- Luke 16:23 into hell, literally, “into Hades.”
- Luke 16:31 even though someone rises from the dead. Even Christ’s resurrection failed to convince the Pharisees, to whom he gave this illustration.
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