Luke
Chapter 16
1 He said and also to the
disciples of himself: A man certain was rich, who had a steward; and this was
accused to him as wasting the possessions of him.
2 And having called him,
he said to him: What this I hear concerning thee? render the account of the
stewardship of thee; not for thou wilt be able longer to be steward.
3 Said and in himself the
steward: What shall I do, for the lord of me takes the stewardship from me? To
dig not I have strength, to beg I am ashamed.
4 I know what i will do,
that, when I may be put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into the
house of themselves.
5 And having summoned one
each of the debtors of the lord of himself, he said to the first: How much
owest thou to the lord of me?
6 He and said: A hundred
baths of oil. And he said to him: Receive of thee the bill, and sitting down
quickly write thou fifty.
7 Then to another he
said: Thou and how much owest thou? He and said: A hundred cors of wheat. And
he says to him: Receive of thee the bill, and write eighty.
8 And praised the lord
the steward the unjust, because prudently he had done; for the sons of the age
this more prudent above the sons of the light for the generation that of
themselves are.
9 And I to you say: Make
you to yourselves friends out of the mammon of the unjust; that, when you may
fail, they may receive you into the age-lasting tabernacles.
10 He faithful in least
also in much faithful is; and he in least unjust, and in much unjust is.
11 If therefore in the
unrighteous mammon faithful not you have been, the true who to you will
entrust?
12 and if in the another
faithful not you have been, the yours who to you will give?
13 No one domestic is
able two lords to serve; either for the one he will hate, and the other he will
love; or one he will cling to, and the other he will slight. Not you are able
God to serve and mammon.
14 Heard and these all
also the Pharisees, money-lovers being; and they mocked him.
15 And he said to them:
You are those justifying yourselves in presence of the men; the but God knows
the hearts of you; for that by men highly prized, an abomination in presence of
the God.
16 The law and the
prophets till John; from then the kingdom of the God is preached, and every one
into her presses.
17 Easier but it is the
heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one fine point to fail.
18 Every one who
dismissing the wife of himself, and marrying another, commits adultery; and
every one who her being divorced from an husband marrying, commits adultery.
19 A man now certain was
rich, and was clothed purple and fine linen, feasting every day sumptuously.
20 A poor and certain was
named Lazarus, who was laid at the gate of him being covered with sores,
21 and longing to be fed
from the crumbs those falling from the table of the rich; but even the dogs
coming licked the sores of him.
22 It happened and to die
the poor, and to be borne away him by the messengers into the bosom Abraham.
Died and also the rich, and was buried.
23 And in the unseen
having lifted the eyes of himself, being in torment, sees the Abraham from a
distance, and Lazarus in the bosoms of him.
24 And he crying out
said: O father Abraham, do thou pity me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the
tip of the finger of himself of water, and may cool the tongue of me; for I am
in pain in the flame this.
25 Said and Abraham: O
child, remember, that thou didst receive the things good of thee in the life of
the, and Lazarus in like manner the things bad; now but this is comforted, thou
and art in pain.
26 And besides all these,
between of us and of you a chasm great has been fixed, so that those wishing to
pass over hence to you, not is able, nor those thence to us cross over.
27 He said then: I
beseech then thee, O father, that thou wouldst send him to the house of the
father of me;
28 I have for five brothers;
that he may testify to them, that not also they may come into the place this of
the torment.
29 Says to him Abraham:
They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 He and said: No, O
father, Abraham; but if one from dead ones may go to them, they will reform.
31 He said but to him: If Moses and the prophets not they hear, neither if one out of dead one should rise, will they be convinced.
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