Luke 16 (NET)

Luke 16:1¹Jesus also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who was informed of accusations that his manager was wasting his assets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:10Matt 25:14-301 Cor 4:1-2Jas 4:3Luke 12:42Titus 1:7Luke 15:13Luke 15:30Luke 19:20Matt 18:23-24

Luke 16:2²So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:51 Sam 2:23-241 Tim 5:242 Cor 5:10Eccl 11:9-10Eccl 12:14Rev 20:121 Cor 1:111 Cor 4:21 Cor 4:5

Luke 16:3³Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m too ashamed to beg.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 3:11Acts 3:2Esth 6:6Hos 9:5Isa 10:3Jer 5:31John 9:8Luke 12:17Luke 16:20Luke 16:22

Luke 16:4⁴I know what to do so that when I am put out of management, people will welcome me into their homes.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 3:15Jer 4:22Prov 30:9

Luke 16:5⁵So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:41-42Matt 18:24

Luke 16:6⁶The man replied, ‘100 measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 16:12Titus 2:10Luke 16:9

Luke 16:7⁷Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ The second man replied, ‘100 measures of wheat.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write 80.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:12Luke 20:9Song 8:11-12

Luke 16:8⁸The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:5Eph 5:8John 12:36Luke 16:10Prov 6:6-8Exod 1:101 Cor 3:181 John 3:10Luke 16:42 Sam 13:3

Luke 16:9⁹And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 19:211 Tim 6:17-19Dan 4:27Matt 6:24Prov 19:17Luke 14:14Luke 16:111 Tim 6:9-10Luke 12:33Isa 58:7-8

Luke 16:10¹⁰“The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 16:11-12Matt 25:21Luke 19:17Matt 25:23Heb 3:2

Luke 16:11¹¹If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:33Jas 2:5Prov 8:18-19Eph 3:8Luke 16:9Luke 18:22Rev 3:18

Luke 16:12¹²And if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you your own?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:13-26Job 1:21Matt 25:14-291 Pet 1:4-51 Chr 29:14-16Ezek 16:16-21

Luke 16:13¹³No 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 money.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:15-16Matt 6:24Jas 4:4Rom 8:5-8Josh 24:15Luke 14:26Luke 11:23Matt 4:10Luke 16:9Rom 6:16-22

Luke 16:14¹⁴The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:35Luke 12:15Luke 20:47Isa 56:11Jer 6:13Jer 8:10Matt 23:132 Tim 3:2Ezek 22:25-29Ezek 33:31

Luke 16:15¹⁵But Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 16:7Prov 21:21 Cor 4:5Jer 17:10Prov 16:5Acts 15:81 Pet 3:4Luke 11:391 Chr 29:17Luke 10:29

Luke 16:16¹⁶“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:9-14Matt 21:32Acts 3:24-25Matt 3:2John 1:45Luke 7:26-29Luke 16:31Acts 3:18Luke 10:9Luke 16:29

Luke 16:17¹⁷But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:18Luke 21:331 Pet 1:25Isa 40:8Rom 3:31Isa 51:6Ps 102:25-27Rev 20:11Rev 21:1Rev 21:4

Luke 16:18¹⁸“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 19:9Mark 10:11-12Matt 5:31-321 Cor 7:10-121 Cor 7:4

Luke 16:19¹⁹“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 16:49Luke 18:24-25Amos 6:4-6Ezek 27:7Jas 5:1-5Ezek 16:13Job 21:11-15Judg 8:26Luke 12:16-21Luke 16:1

Luke 16:20²⁰But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:2Jas 2:5Job 2:71 Sam 2:8Isa 1:6Jas 1:9Luke 16:21Ps 34:19Jer 8:22John 11:1

Luke 16:21²¹who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 15:27John 6:12Mark 7:281 Cor 4:112 Cor 11:27

Luke 16:22²²“Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:24Ps 49:16-19Jas 1:11Rev 14:13Eccl 8:10Matt 18:10Prov 14:32Ps 49:6-12Heb 1:14Isa 57:1-2

Luke 16:23²³And in Hades, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:4Luke 16:28Matt 18:9Matt 23:33Matt 8:11-12Ps 9:17Rev 14:10-11Isa 14:15Isa 14:9Luke 8:28

Luke 16:24²⁴So he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 4:10Rev 22:1John 4:14Rev 7:16-17Matt 25:41Jas 3:6Luke 16:30Luke 3:8Rev 20:15Isa 66:24

Luke 16:25²⁵But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 6:241 John 2:15Ps 17:14Mark 9:45Phil 3:19Rom 8:7Acts 14:22Ps 37:35-361 Thess 3:3Heb 11:25

Luke 16:26²⁶Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:36Ps 49:14Ps 50:22Jas 1:11-122 Thess 1:4-10Jas 5:1-7Mal 3:18Matt 25:46Rev 20:10

Luke 16:27²⁷So the rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father—send Lazarus to my father’s houseCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Luke 16:28²⁸(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 49:12-13Acts 2:401 Thess 4:6Acts 20:23

Luke 16:29²⁹But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 15:21Luke 24:272 Pet 1:19-212 Tim 3:15-17Acts 17:11-12Isa 34:16Isa 8:20John 5:39-47Luke 16:16Mal 4:2-4

Luke 16:30³⁰Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 16:24Rev 16:9-11Luke 13:5Luke 3:8Luke 13:3

Luke 16:31³¹He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:3John 11:43-53Acts 19:8Acts 26:28Acts 28:232 Cor 5:11John 12:10-11