Thematic Bible
Luke 17:1 (show verse)
Jesus said to his disciples: "It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them!
Luke 17:2 (show verse)
It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.
Luke 17:3 (show verse)
Be on your guard! If your brother does wrong, reprove him; but if he repents, forgive him.
Luke 17:4 (show verse)
Even if he wrongs you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
Luke 17:5 (show verse)
"Give us more faith," said the Apostles to the Master;
Luke 17:6 (show verse)
But the Master said: "If your faith were only like a mustard- seed, you could say to this mulberry tree 'Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
Luke 17:7 (show verse)
Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'
Luke 17:8 (show verse)
Instead of saying 'Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and wait on me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you shall eat and drink yourself'?
Luke 17:9 (show verse)
Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
Luke 17:10 (show verse)
And so with you--when you have done all that you have been told, still say 'We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.'"
Luke 17:11 (show verse)
On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
Luke 17:12 (show verse)
As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
Luke 17:13 (show verse)
Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly: "Jesus! Sir! pity us!"
Luke 17:14 (show verse)
When Jesus saw them, he said: "Go and show yourselves to the priest." And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.
Luke 17:15 (show verse)
One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
Luke 17:16 (show verse)
And threw himself on his face at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.
Luke 17:17 (show verse)
"Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine--where are they?
Luke 17:18 (show verse)
Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
Luke 17:19 (show verse)
Get up," he said to him, "and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you."
Luke 17:20 (show verse)
Being once asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered: "The Kingdom of God does not come in a way that admits of observation,
Luke 17:21 (show verse)
Nor will people say 'Look, here it is!' or 'There it is!'; for the Kingdom of God is within you!
Luke 17:22 (show verse)
The day will come," he said to his disciples, "when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.
Luke 17:23 (show verse)
People will say to you 'There he is! or 'Here he is!' Do not go and follow them.
Luke 17:24 (show verse)
For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.
Luke 17:25 (show verse)
But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.
Luke 17:26 (show verse)
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:27 (show verse)
They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28 (show verse)
So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
Luke 17:29 (show verse)
But, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30 (show verse)
It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
Luke 17:31 (show verse)
On that day, if a man is on his house-top and his goods in the house, he must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.
Luke 17:32 (show verse)
Remember Lot's wife.
Luke 17:33 (show verse)
Whoever is eager to get the most out of his life will lose it; but whoever will lose it shall preserve it.
Luke 17:34 (show verse)
On that night, I tell you, of two men upon the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;
Luke 17:35 (show verse)
Of two women grinding together, one will be taken and the other left."
Luke 17:36 (show verse)
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Luke 17:37 (show verse)
"Where will it be, Master?" interposed the disciples. "Where there is a body," said Jesus, "'there will the vultures flock.'"