KJ3 Literal Translation
Luke 17
1 Christ teaches to avoid occasions of offense. 3 One to forgive another. 6 The power of faith. 7 How we are bound to God, and not He to us.
1And He said to the disciples, It is impossible that the stumbling-blocks should not come, but woe to him through whom they come!
2It is profitable for him if a millstone turned by an ass is put around his neck, and he be thrown into the sea, than that he should stumble one of these little ones.
3Take heed to yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
4And if seven times in the day he sins against you, and seven times in the day returns to you saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.
5And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us.
6But the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard, you may say to this sycamine tree, Be rooted up and be planted in the sea! And it would obey you.
7But which of you having a slave plowing or shepherding will say at once to him coming out of the field, Coming, recline?
8But will he not say to him, Prepare something I may eat, and having girded yourself, serve me until I eat and drink, and after these things you shall eat and drink?
9Does he have thanks to that slave because he did the things commanded him? I think not.
10So also you,when you have done all things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable slaves, what we ought to do we have done.
11And it happened in His going to Jerusalem even He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
12And He entering into a certain village, ten leprous men met Him, who stood afar off.
13And they lifted their voice, saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14And seeing them, He said to them, Going, show yourselves to the priests. And it happened in their going they were cleansed.
15And one of them, seeing that he was cured, returned glorifying God with a loud voice,
16and fell on his face at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.
17And answering, Jesus said, Were not the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
18Were not any found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?
19And He said to him, Rising up, go! Your faith has cured you.
20And being questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God comes, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;
21nor will they say,Behold, here! Or, Behold, there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
22And He said to the disciples, Days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see.
23And they will say to you, Behold, here! Or, Behold, there! Do not go away, nor follow.
24For as the lightning lighting up out of one part under heaven to one part under heaven shines, so also will the Son of Man be in His day.
25But first He must suffer many things and be rejected from this generation.
26And as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
27They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark. And the flood came and destroyed all.
28And likewise, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
29but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed all.
30According to those things, it will be in the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31In that day, he who will be on the housetop, let him not go down to take his goods from the house. And likewise, he in the field, let him not return to the things behind.
32Remember Lot’s wife.
33Whoever seeks to save his life, he will lose it. And whoever will lose it, he will preserve it.
34I say to you, In that night two will be on one bed; the one will be taken and the other will be left.
35Two will be grinding at the same thing; one will be taken and the other will be left.
36Two will be in the field, the one will be taken and the other will be left.
37And answering, they said to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
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