Luke 16:11-21

11 If, then, you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth?
12 And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what belongs to you?
13 "No servant can be the slave of two masters; such a slave will hate one and love the other or will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." 1
14 When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.
15 Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who make yourselves look right in other people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For the things that are considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.
16 "The Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were in effect up to the time of John the Baptist; since then the Good News about the Kingdom of God is being told, and everyone forces their way in. 2
17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with. 3
18 "Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. 4
19 "There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.
20 There was also a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who used to be brought to the rich man's door,
21 hoping to eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Cross References 4

  • 1. 16.13Matthew 6.24.
  • 2. 16.16Matthew 11.12, 13.
  • 3. 16.17Matthew 5.18.
  • 4. 16.18Matthew 5.32;1 Corinthians 7.10, 11.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.