Thematic Bible
Luke 17:1 (show verse)
Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!
Luke 17:2 (show verse)
It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.
Luke 17:3 (show verse)
Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;
Luke 17:4 (show verse)
and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
Luke 17:5 (show verse)
And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."
Luke 17:6 (show verse)
"If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, 'Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you.
Luke 17:7 (show verse)
But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'
Luke 17:8 (show verse)
and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?
Luke 17:9 (show verse)
Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?
Luke 17:10 (show verse)
So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "'There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"
Luke 17:11 (show verse)
As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee.
Luke 17:12 (show verse)
And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.
Luke 17:13 (show verse)
In loud voices they cried out, "Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us."
Luke 17:14 (show verse)
Perceiving this, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the Priests." And while on their way to do this they were made clean.
Luke 17:15 (show verse)
One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,
Luke 17:16 (show verse)
and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan.
Luke 17:17 (show verse)
"Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?
Luke 17:18 (show verse)
Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"
Luke 17:19 (show verse)
And He said to him, "Rise and go: your faith has cured you."
Luke 17:20 (show verse)
Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.
Luke 17:21 (show verse)
Nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."
Luke 17:22 (show verse)
Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.
Luke 17:23 (show verse)
And they will say to you, 'See there!' 'See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.
Luke 17:24 (show verse)
For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.
Luke 17:25 (show verse)
But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.
Luke 17:26 (show verse)
"And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:27 (show verse)
Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28 (show verse)
The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;
Luke 17:29 (show verse)
but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30 (show verse)
Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man.
Luke 17:31 (show verse)
"On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back.
Luke 17:32 (show verse)
Remember Lot's wife.
Luke 17:33 (show verse)
Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Luke 17:34 (show verse)
On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be taken away and the other left behind.
Luke 17:35 (show verse)
There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."
Luke 17:36 (show verse)
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Luke 17:37 (show verse)
"Where, Master?" they inquired. "Where the dead body is," He replied, "there also will the vultures flock together."