KJ3 Literal Translation
Luke 16
1 The parable of the unjust steward. 14 Christ reproves the hypocrisy of the covetous Pharisees.
1And He also said to His disciples, A certain man was rich; and he had a steward, and this one was accused to him as dissipating his goods.
2And calling him, he said to him, What is this I hear about you? Give the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.
3And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, for my lord is taking away the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
4I know what I will do, that when I am removed from the stewardship, they will receive me into their houses.
5And having called to him each one of the debtors of his lord, he said to the first, How much do you owe my lord?
6And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take your statements and sitting quickly write fifty.
7Then he said to another, And you, how much do you owe? And he said, a hundred cors of wheat. And he said to him, Take your statement and write eighty.
8And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, because he acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of light themselves are in their generation.
9And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends by the unrighteous wealth, that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
10He faithful in the least is also faithful in much. And he unrighteous in the least is also unrighteous in much.
11Therefore if you were not faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true to you?
12And if you were not faithful in that of another, who will give to you that which is yours?
13No servant is able to serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other; or he will cling to one, and he will despise the other. You are unable to serve God and wealth.
14And being lovers of money, the Pharisees also heard all these things; and they derided Him.
15And He said to them, You are the ones justifying yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for the thing highly prized among men is an abomination before God.
16The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is entering into it by force.
17But it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than one point of the Law to fail.
18Everyone putting away his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery. And everyone marrying her having been put away from a husband commits adultery.
19And a certain man was rich; and dressed in a purple robe and fine linen, being merry living luxuriously according to a day.
20And there was a certain poor one, Lazarus by name, who had been thrown at his doorway, being covered with sores,
21and longing to be filled from the crumbs that were falling from the table of the rich one. But coming, even the dogs licked his sores.
22And it came to be, the poor one died and was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich one also died and was buried.
23And being in torments in hell, lifting up his eyes, he sees Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.
24And calling he 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 tormented in this flame.
25But Abraham said, Child, remember that you fully received your good things in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise the bad things, and you are tormented.
26And besides all these things, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those desiring to pass from here to you are not able, nor can they pass from there to us.
27And he said, Therefore I ask you, father, that you send him to my father’s house;
28(for I have five brothers, so that he may witness to them, that they not also come to this place of torment).
29Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them.
30But he said, No, Father Abraham, but if one should go from dead ones to them, they will repent.
31And he said to him, If they will not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone from dead ones should rise.
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