Luke 16:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

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  • Ps 49:12-13 : 12 Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 And with many other words he testified and encouraged them, saying, 'Save yourselves from this perverse generation.'
  • Acts 20:23 : 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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    23And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

    24And he cried and 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, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.

    26And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us who would come from there.

    27Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house:

  • Luke 16:29-31
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    29Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

    30And he said, No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will repent.

    31And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.

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    11And he said, A certain man had two sons:

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  • Luke 16:4-5
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    4I have resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

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  • Matt 22:25-26
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    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

    26Likewise the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

  • Luke 15:26-30
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    26And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

    27And he said to him, Your brother has come; and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.

    28And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore his father came out, and pleaded with him.

    29And he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, nor have I transgressed at any time your commandment: and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends:

    30But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.

  • Luke 20:28-29
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    16And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.

    17And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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    28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

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    13And one of the company said to him, Master, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

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  • Mark 5:7
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    7And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you by God, do not torment me.

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    20And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores,

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    19'Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and no children, his brother should marry the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

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    3And he spoke this parable to them, saying,