Luke 16:13-18
English Standard Version
13 (A)No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
The Law and the Kingdom of God
14 (B)The Pharisees, who were (C)lovers of money, heard all these things, and they (D)ridiculed him. 15 And he said to them, “You are those who (E)justify yourselves before men, but (F)God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men (G)is an abomination in the sight of God.
16 (H)“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then (I)the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and (J)everyone forces his way into it.[a] 17 But (K)it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.
Divorce and Remarriage
18 (L)“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
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- Luke 16:16 Or everyone is forcefully urged into it
Lukas 16:13-18
Orthodox Jewish Bible
13 No eved is able to serve two adonim; for either he will have sinah (hatred) toward the one and he will have ahavah (love) toward the other, or one he will be devoted to and the other he will despise. Your avodas service cannot be for both Hashem and Mammon.
14 And the Perushim, who were ohavei kesef (lovers of money), heard all this and they made leitzonus (fun) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
15 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You are the ones who in the sight of Bnei Adam credit yourself as being yitzdak im Hashem (justified with G-d, IYOV 25:4), but Hashem has daas (knowledge) of your levavot. Because the thing highly esteemed among Bnei Adam is a to’eva (abomination) before Hashem.
16 The Torah and the Neviim were proclaimed until Yochanan; since then it is the Malchut Hashem that is being preached as Besuras HaGeulah, and anyone entering it must strive to do so.
17 But it is easier for HaShomayim and HaAretz to pass away than for one tag (ornamental flourish) of the Torah to fail.
18 Anyone giving the get to his isha and taking another wife commits ni’uf (adultery), and the one marrying a gerusha (divorcee) commits ni’uf (adultery).
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