The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. ²⁰ And a poor man named Lazarus ^(A)was laid at his gate, covered with sores, ²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. ²² Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to ^(B)Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ In ^(C)Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ And he cried out and said, ‘^(D)Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in ^(E)this flame.’ ²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that ^(F)during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. ²⁶ And ^[a]besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ ²⁷ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house— ²⁸ for I have five brothers—in order that he may ^(G)warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ ²⁹ But Abraham *said, ‘They have ^(H)Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ ³⁰ But he said, ‘No, ^(I)father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ ³¹ But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

⁴³ And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in ^(A)Paradise.”

²³ But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the ^(A)desire to depart and ^(B)be with Christ, for that is very much better;

The Temporal and Eternal

5 For we know that if ^[a]the ^(A)earthly ^(B)tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house ^(C)not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For indeed in this house we ^(D)groan, longing to be ^(E)clothed with our dwelling from heaven, ³ inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. ⁴ For indeed while we are in this tent, we ^(F)groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be ^(G)clothed, so that what is ^(H)mortal will be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who ^(I)gave to us the Spirit as a ^[b]pledge.

⁶ Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that ^(J)while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— ⁷ for ^(K)we walk by faith, not by ^[c]sight— ⁸ we are of good courage, I say, and ^(L)prefer rather to be absent from the body and ^(M)to be at home with the Lord.

^10 (A)who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

^9 (A)then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from ^[a]temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the ^(B)day of judgment,