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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  • 85%

    22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

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

    24 And 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.

    25 But 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.

    26 And 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.

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

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    29 Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

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

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

    12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided to them his livelihood.

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

    5 So he called every one of his master's debtors to him, and said to the first, How much do you owe my master?

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    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

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

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    26 And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

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

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

    29 And 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:

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

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    28 Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.

    29 There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

  • 10 And he begged him earnestly that he would not send them away out of the country.

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    16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.

    17 And 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!

    18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

  • 28 There 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.

  • 7 And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

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

  • 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them: I ask you to have me excused.

  • 5 I tell you, No: but unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

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    5 And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"

    6 And Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there.

  • 7 And 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.

  • 6 Therefore, having one son, his beloved, he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

  • 45 Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him: then I will send and get you from there: why should I be deprived of both of you in one day?

  • 28 Suppose there should lack five of the fifty righteous; will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.

  • 5 But I will warn you whom you shall fear: Fear him, who after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, Fear him.

  • 9 And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves using the wealth of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

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

  • 6 For a friend of mine on his journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?

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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.

    20 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died, leaving no offspring.

  • 11 And I say to you, that many will come from the east and west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

  • 29 And Jesus answered and said, Truly I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

  • 19 Brethren, if any of you stray from the truth, and someone turns him back;

  • 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

  • 32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad: for this your brother was dead and is alive again; and was lost and is found.

  • 1 And he also said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and he was accused to him of wasting his goods.

  • 3 And he spoke this parable to them, saying,