Luke 16:26-31

26 'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
27 "And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house -
28 for I have five brothers -in order that he may 1warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'
29 "But Abraham said, 'They have 2Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.'
30 "But he said, 'No, 3father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!'
31 "But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.' "

Cross References 3

  • 1. Acts 2:40; Acts 8:25; Acts 10:42; Acts 18:5; Acts 20:21f; Acts 23:11; Acts 28:23; Galatians 5:3; Ephesians 4:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:6
  • 2. Luke 4:17; John 5:45-47; Acts 15:21
  • 3. Luke 3:8; Luke 16:24; Luke 19:9

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit "in all these things"
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