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Luke 16 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Shrewd Manager
1 AND he said also to his Disciples: There was a certain rich man that had a bailiff: & he was ill reported of unto him, as he that had wasted his goods.📜💬📚
2 And he called him, and said to him: What hear I this of thee? Render account of thy bailiffship: for now thou canst no more be bailiff.📜💬📚
3 And the bailiff said within him self: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the bailiffship? Dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed.📜💬📚
4 I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the bailiffship, they may receive me into their houses.📜💬📚
5 Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debters, he said to the first: How much doest thou owe my lord?📜💬📚
6 But he saith: An hundred pipes of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down, quickly write fifty.📜💬📚
7 After that he said to an other: But thou, how much doest thou owe? Who said: An hundreth quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.📜💬📚
8 And the lord praised the bailiff of iniquity, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world, are wiser than the children of light in their generation.📜💬📚
9 And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.📜💬📚
10 He that is faithful in the least, is faithful in the greater also: and he that is unjust in little, is unjust in the greater also.📜💬📚
11 If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, with that which is the true who may credit you?📜💬📚
12 And if you have not been faithful in other men's, that which is yours, who will give you?📜💬📚
13 No servant can serve two masters; for either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or cleave to one, and contemn the other. You can not serve God and mammon.📜💬📚
Law and the Prophets
14 And the Pharisees which were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.📜💬📚
15 And he said to them: You are they that justify your selves before men, but God knoweth your hearts, because that which is high to men, is abomination before God.📜💬📚
16 The Law and the Prophets, unto John. From that time the Kingdom of God is evangelized, and every one doth force toward it.📜💬📚
17 And it is easier for Heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.📜💬📚
18 Every one that dismisseth his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is dismissed from her husband, committeth adultery.📜💬📚
Rich Man and Lazarus
19 There was a certain rich man, & he was clothed with purple and silk: and he fared every day magnifically.📜💬📚
20 And there was a certain beggar called Lazarus, that lay at his gate, full of sores:📜💬📚
21 desiring to be filled of the crumbs, that fell from the rich man's table, but the dogs also came, and licked his sores.📜💬📚
22 And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried of the Angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.📜💬📚
23 And lifting up his eyes, when he was in torments, he saw Abraham a far off, and Lazarus in his bosom:📜💬📚
24 and he crying said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger into water for to cool my tongue, because I am tormented in this flame.📜💬📚
25 And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy life time, and Lazarus likewise evil: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.📜💬📚
26 And beside all these things, between us and you there is fixed a great chaos: that they which will pass from hence to you, may not, neither go from thence hither.📜💬📚
27 And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldest send him unto my father's house, for I have five brethren,📜💬📚
28 for to testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.📜💬📚
29 And Abraham said to him: They have Moyses and the Prophets: let them hear them.📜💬📚
30 But he said: No, father Abraham, but if some man shall go from the dead to them, they will do penance.📜💬📚
31 And he said to him: If they hear not Moyses and the Prophets, neither if one shall rise again from the dead, will they believe.📜💬📚
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