Luke 16

1He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.Cross-references: Gen 15:2 · Gen 43:19 · 1Chr 28:1 · Prov 18:9 · Hos 2:8 · Matt 18:23 · +11 more

2He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’Cross-references: Gen 3:9 · Gen 4:9 · Gen 18:20 · 1Sam 2:23 · Eccl 11:9 · Eccl 12:14 · +14 more

3“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.Cross-references: Esth 6:6 · Prov 13:4 · Prov 15:19 · Prov 18:9 · Prov 19:15 · Prov 20:4 · +17 more

4I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’Cross-references: Prov 30:9 · Jer 4:22 · James 3:15

5Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’Cross-references: Matt 18:24 · Luke 7:41

6He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’Cross-references: Luke 16:9 · Luke 16:12 · Titus 2:10

7Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’Cross-references: Song 8:11 · Luke 20:9 · Luke 20:12

8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · Ex 1:10 · 2Sam 13:3 · 2Ki 10:19 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 49:10 · +13 more

9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.Cross-references: Ps 73:26 · Prov 19:17 · Prov 23:5 · Eccl 11:1 · Eccl 12:3 · Isa 57:16 · +19 more

10He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.Cross-references: Matt 25:21 · Matt 25:23 · Luke 16:11 · Luke 19:17 · John 12:6 · John 13:2 · +2 more

11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?Cross-references: Prov 8:18 · Luke 12:33 · Luke 16:9 · Luke 18:22 · Eph 3:8 · James 2:5 · +1 more

12If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?Cross-references: 1Chr 29:14 · Job 1:21 · Ezek 16:16 · Hos 2:8 · Matt 25:14 · Luke 10:42 · +3 more

13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to one and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”Cross-references: Josh 24:15 · Matt 4:10 · Matt 6:24 · Luke 9:50 · Luke 11:23 · Luke 14:26 · +5 more

14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.Cross-references: Ps 35:15 · Ps 119:51 · Isa 53:3 · Isa 56:11 · Jer 6:13 · Jer 8:10 · +11 more

15He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · 1Chr 29:17 · 2Chr 6:30 · Ps 7:9 · Ps 10:3 · Ps 49:13 · +30 more

16“The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.Cross-references: Matt 3:2 · Matt 4:17 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 10:7 · Matt 11:9 · Matt 21:32 · +13 more

17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.Cross-references: Ps 102:25 · Isa 40:8 · Isa 51:6 · Matt 5:18 · Luke 21:33 · Rom 3:31 · +5 more

18“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.Cross-references: Matt 5:31 · Matt 19:9 · Mark 10:11 · 1Cor 7:4 · 1Cor 7:10

19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.Cross-references: Judg 8:26 · Esth 8:15 · Job 21:11 · Ps 73:3 · Ezek 16:13 · Ezek 16:49 · +12 more

20A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,Cross-references: 1Sam 2:8 · Job 2:7 · Ps 34:19 · Ps 73:14 · Isa 1:6 · Jer 8:22 · +6 more

21and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.Cross-references: Matt 15:27 · Mark 7:28 · John 6:12 · 1Cor 4:11 · 2Cor 11:27

22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:34 · Job 3:13 · Job 21:13 · Job 21:30 · Ps 49:6 · Ps 49:16 · +20 more

23In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.Cross-references: Ps 9:17 · Ps 16:10 · Ps 49:15 · Ps 86:13 · Prov 5:5 · Prov 7:27 · +19 more

24He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’Cross-references: 1Sam 28:16 · Isa 27:11 · Isa 41:17 · Isa 65:13 · Isa 66:24 · Zech 14:12 · +21 more

25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.Cross-references: Job 21:13 · Job 22:18 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 37:35 · Ps 49:11 · Ps 73:7 · +16 more

26Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’Cross-references: 1Sam 25:36 · Ps 49:14 · Ps 50:22 · Ezek 28:24 · Mal 3:18 · Matt 25:46 · +7 more

27“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—

28for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’Cross-references: Ps 49:12 · Acts 2:40 · Acts 20:23 · 1Thess 4:6

29“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’Cross-references: Isa 8:20 · Isa 34:16 · Mal 4:2 · Luke 4:17 · Luke 16:16 · Luke 24:27 · +5 more

30“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’Cross-references: Luke 3:8 · Luke 13:3 · Luke 13:5 · Luke 16:24 · Rev 16:9

31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”Cross-references: Gen 9:27 · John 11:43 · John 12:10 · Acts 19:8 · Acts 26:28 · Acts 28:23 · +2 more