Luke 16:20

World English Bible (2000)

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

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  • Acts 3:2 : 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
  • Jas 1:9 : 9 But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
  • Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
  • 1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.
  • Job 2:7 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
  • Ps 73:14 : 14 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
  • Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
  • Luke 16:21 : 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
  • Luke 18:35-43 : 35 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. 36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. 37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. 38 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" 39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" 40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, 41 "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again." 42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you." 43 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
  • John 11:1 : 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

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    21and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

    22It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

    23In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

    24He 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 in anguish in this flame.'

    25"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

    26Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

    27"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

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    19"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

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    1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

    2It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

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    2A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

    3Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

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    1He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

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    2Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

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    14When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

    15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

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

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    2The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

    3but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.

    4A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."

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    35It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.

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    21"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'

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    30Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

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    6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

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    16He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

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    2So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

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    13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

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    8At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

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    43When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

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    15When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"

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    18Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

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    20He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.

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    23But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

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