Luke 16:9-31

Legacy Standard Bible

⁹ And I say to you, ^(A)make friends for yourselves from the ^[a](B)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, ^(C)they will ^[b]take you into the eternal dwellings.

¹⁰ “^(D)He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much, and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. ¹¹ Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous ^[c](E)wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you? ¹² And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? ^13 (F)No ^[d]servant can ^[e]serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot ^[f]serve God and ^[g](G)wealth.”

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who were ^(H)lovers of money, were listening to all these things and ^(I)were scoffing at Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, “You are those who ^(J)justify yourselves ^[h]in the sight of men, but ^(K)God knows your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable ^[i]in the sight of God.

¹⁶ “^(L)The Law and the Prophets were until John; ^[j]since that time ^(M)the good news of the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone is forcing his way into it. ^17 (N)But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one ^[k]stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.

¹⁸ “^(O)Everyone who ^[l]divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman who is ^[m]divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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 But a poor man named Lazarus ^(P)was laid at his gate, covered with sores, ²¹ and desiring 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 it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to ^(Q)Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in ^(R)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, ‘^(S)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 ^(T)this flame.’ ²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that ^(U)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 ^[n]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 are not able, and none may cross over from there to us.’ ²⁷ And he said, ‘Then I am asking you, father, that you send him to my father’s house— ²⁸ for I have five brothers—in order that he may ^(V)warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ ²⁹ But Abraham *said, ‘They have ^(W)Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ ³⁰ But he said, ‘No, ^(X)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.’”