Thematic Bible
Luke 16:1 (show verse)
And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and he was accused to him as wasting his goods.
Luke 16:2 (show verse)
And calling him, he said to him, Why hear I this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.
Luke 16:3 (show verse)
And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? For my lord taketh away the stewardship from me. I cannot dig, to beg I am ashamed.
Luke 16:4 (show verse)
I know what to do, that when I am removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Luke 16:5 (show verse)
So having called to him every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?
Luke 16:6 (show verse)
And he said, An hundred measures of oil. He said to him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.
Luke 16:7 (show verse)
Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? He said, An hundred measures of wheat. He saith, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Luke 16:8 (show verse)
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely; for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
Luke 16:9 (show verse)
And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Luke 16:10 (show verse)
He that is faithful in the least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much.
Luke 16:11 (show verse)
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust you with the true riches?
Luke 16:12 (show verse)
And if ye have not been fauthful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
Luke 16:13 (show verse)
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will cleave to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
Luke 16:14 (show verse)
And the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard these things, and they derided him.
Luke 16:15 (show verse)
And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth your hearts: And that which is highly esteemed among men, is an abomination before God.
Luke 16:16 (show verse)
The law and the Prophets were until John: from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man forceth into it.
Luke 16:17 (show verse)
Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than for one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke 16:18 (show verse)
Whosoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery.
Luke 16:19 (show verse)
There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted splendidly every day.
Luke 16:20 (show verse)
And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores;
Luke 16:21 (show verse)
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table: yea, the dogs also came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:22 (show verse)
And the beggar died and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died and was buried:
Luke 16:23 (show verse)
And in hell lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke 16:24 (show verse)
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Luke 16:25 (show verse)
But Abraham said, Son, remember, that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Luke 16:26 (show verse)
And besides all this, between us and you, there is a great gulph fixed; so that they who would pass from us to you, cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence.
Luke 16:27 (show verse)
Then he said, I pray thee, therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
Luke 16:28 (show verse)
For I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Luke 16:29 (show verse)
Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Luke 16:30 (show verse)
And he said, Nay, father Abraham; but if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.
Luke 16:31 (show verse)
And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded tho' one rose from the dead.