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He also said to the disciples , "
There was a rich man who had a steward ,
and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods .
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And he called him and said to him , `
What is this that I hear about you ?
Turn in the account of your stewardship ,
for you can no longer be steward .'
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And the steward said to himself , `
What shall I do ,
since my master is taking the stewardship away from me ?
I am not strong enough to dig ,
and I am ashamed to beg .
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I have decided what to do ,
so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship .'
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So ,
summoning his master '
s debtors one by one ,
he said to the first , `
How much do you owe my master ?'
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He said , `
A hundred measures of oil .'
And he said to him , `
Take your bill ,
and sit down quickly and write fifty .'
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Then he said to another , `
And how much do you owe ?'
He said , `
A hundred measures of wheat .'
He said to him , `
Take your bill ,
and write eighty .'
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The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness ;
for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light .
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And I tell you ,
make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon ,
so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations .
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He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much ;
and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much .
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If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon ,
who will entrust to you the true riches ?
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And if you have not been faithful in that which is another '
s ,
who will give you that which is your own ?
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No servant can serve two masters ;
for either he will hate the one and love the other ,
or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other .
You cannot serve God and mammon ."
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The Pharisees ,
who were lovers of money ,
heard all this ,
and they scoffed at him .
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But he said to them , "
You are those who justify yourselves before men ,
but God knows your hearts ;
for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God .
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The law and the prophets were until John ;
since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached ,
and every one enters it violently .
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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away ,
than for one dot of the law to become void .
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Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery ,
and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery .
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There was a rich man ,
who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day .
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And at his gate lay a poor man named Laz '
arus ,
full of sores ,
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who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man '
s table ;
moreover the dogs came and licked his sores .
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The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham '
s bosom .
The rich man also died and was buried ;
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and in Hades ,
being in torment ,
he lifted up his eyes ,
and saw Abraham far off and Laz '
arus in his bosom .
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And he called out , `
Father Abraham ,
have mercy upon me ,
and send Laz '
arus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue ;
for I am in anguish in this flame .'
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But Abraham said , `
Son ,
remember that you in your lifetime received your good things ,
and Laz '
arus in like manner evil things ;
but now he is comforted here ,
and you are in anguish .
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And besides all this ,
between us and you a great chasm has been fixed ,
in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able ,
and none may cross from there to us .'
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And he said , `
Then I beg you ,
father ,
to send him to my father '
s house ,
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for I have five brothers ,
so that he may warn them ,
lest they also come into this place of torment .'
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But Abraham said , `
They have Moses and the prophets ;
let them hear them .'
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And he said , `
No ,
father Abraham ;
but if some one goes to them from the dead ,
they will repent .'
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He said to him , `
If they do not hear Moses and the prophets ,
neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead .'"
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And he said to his disciples , "
Temptations to sin are sure to come ;
but woe to him by whom they come !
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It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were cast into the sea ,
than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin .
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Take heed to yourselves ;
if your brother sins ,
rebuke him ,
and if he repents ,
forgive him ;
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and if he sins against you seven times in the day ,
and turns to you seven times ,
and says , `
I repent ,'
you must forgive him ."
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The apostles said to the Lord , "
Increase our faith !"
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And the Lord said , "
If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed ,
you could say to this sycamine tree , `
Be rooted up ,
and be planted in the sea ,'
and it would obey you .
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Will any one of you ,
who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep ,
say to him when he has come in from the field , `
Come at once and sit down at table '?
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Will he not rather say to him , `
Prepare supper for me ,
and gird yourself and serve me ,
till I eat and drink ;
and afterward you shall eat and drink '?
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Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded ?
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So you also ,
when you have done all that is commanded you ,
say , `
We are unworthy servants ;
we have only done what was our duty .'"
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On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Sama '
ria and Galilee .
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And as he entered a village ,
he was met by ten lepers ,
who stood at a distance
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and lifted up their voices and said , "
Jesus ,
Master ,
have mercy on us ."
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When he saw them he said to them , "
Go and show yourselves to the priests ."
And as they went they were cleansed .
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Then one of them ,
when he saw that he was healed ,
turned back ,
praising God with a loud voice ;
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and he fell on his face at Jesus '
feet ,
giving him thanks .
Now he was a Samaritan .
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Then said Jesus , "
Were not ten cleansed ?
Where are the nine ?
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Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner ?"
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And he said to him , "
Rise and go your way ;
your faith has made you well ."
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Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming ,
he answered them , "
The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed ;
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nor will they say , `
Lo ,
here it is !'
or `
There !'
for behold ,
the kingdom of God is in the midst of you ."
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And he said to the disciples , "
The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man ,
and you will not see it .
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And they will say to you , `
Lo ,
there !'
or `
Lo ,
here !'
Do not go ,
do not follow them .
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For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other ,
so will the Son of man be in his day .
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But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation .
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As it was in the days of Noah ,
so will it be in the days of the Son of man .
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They ate ,
they drank ,
they married ,
they were given in marriage ,
until the day when Noah entered the ark ,
and the flood came and destroyed them all .
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Likewise as it was in the days of Lot--they ate ,
they drank ,
they bought ,
they sold ,
they planted ,
they built ,
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but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all --
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so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed .
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On that day ,
let him who is on the housetop ,
with his goods in the house ,
not come down to take them away ;
and likewise let him who is in the field not turn back .
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Remember Lot '
s wife .
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Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it ,
but whoever loses his life will preserve it .
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I tell you ,
in that night there will be two in one bed ;
one will be taken and the other left .
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There will be two women grinding together ;
one will be taken and the other left ."
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And they said to him , "
Where ,
Lord ?"
He said to them , "
Where the body is ,
there the eagles will be gathered together ."
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And he told them a parable ,
to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart .