Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 Jesus said to his disciples:
“There was a rich man who had a steward;
and this steward was maliciously accused to him
of wasting his estate.
2 So the master called him
and said ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give in your
accounts, for you cannot act as steward any longer.’
3 ‘What am I to do,’ the steward asked himself, ‘now that my
master is taking the steward's place away from me? I have
not strength to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
4 I know what
I will do, so that, as soon as I am turned out of my stewardship,
people may welcome me into their homes.’
5 One by one he
called up his master's debtors. ‘How much do you owe my
master?’ he asked of the first.
6 ‘Four hundred and forty
gallons of oil,’ answered the man. ‘Here is your agreement,’
he said; ‘sit down at once and make it two hundred and
twenty.
7 And you,’ the steward said to the next, ‘how much
do you owe?’ ‘Seventy quarters of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Here
is your agreement,’ the steward said; ‘make it fifty-six.’
8 His
master complimented this dishonest steward on the shrewdness
of his action. And indeed men of the world are shrewder
in dealing with their fellow-men than those who have the
Light. note ⪆⪆
9 And I say to you ‘Win friends for yourselves
with your dishonest money,’ so that, when it comes to an end,
there may be a welcome for you into the Eternal Home. note
10 He who is trustworthy in the smallest matter is trustworthy
in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in the smallest
matter is dishonest in a great one also.
11 So, if you have proved
untrustworthy with the ‘dishonest money,’ who will trust you
with the true? note
12 And, if you have proved untrustworthy with
what does not belong to us, who will give you
what is really our own? ⪆⪆ note
13 No servant can
serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the
other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the
other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
note
14 All this was said within hearing of the
Pharisees, who were lovers of money, and they
began to sneer at Jesus.
15 “You,” said Jesus, “are the men who justify themselves
before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is
highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the
sight of God. ⪆⪆
16 The Law and the Prophets sufficed until
the time of John. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom
of God has been told, and everybody has been forcing his way
into it. ⪆⪆
17 It would be easier for the heavens and the
earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to
be lost. ⪆⪆
18 Every one who divorces his wife and marries
another woman is an adulterer, and the man who marries a
divorced woman is an adulterer.
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19 There was once a rich man, who dressed in
purple robes and fine linen, and feasted every day
in great splendour.
20 Near his gateway there had
been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,
21 and who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the
rich man's table. Even the very dogs came and licked his
sores.
22 After a time the beggar died, and was taken by the
angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was
buried.
23 In the Place of Death he looked up in his torment,
and saw Abraham at a distance and Lazarus at his side.
24 So he
called out ‘Pity me, Father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip
the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am
suffering agony in this flame.’
25 ‘Child,’ answered Abraham, ‘remember that you in
your lifetime received what you thought desirable, just as
Lazarus received what was not desirable; but now he has his
consolation here, while you are suffering agony.
26 And not
only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so
that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can
they cross from there to us.’
27 ‘Then, Father,’ he said, ‘I beg you to send Lazarus to my
father's house—for I have five brothers—to warn them,
28 so that
they may not come to this place of torture also.’
29 ‘They have the writings of Moses and the Prophets,’ replied
Abraham; ‘let them listen to them.’
30 ‘But, Father Abraham,’ he urged, ‘if some one from the
dead were to go to them, they would repent.’
31 ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets,’ answered
Abraham, ‘they will not be persuaded, even if some one were
to rise from the dead.’”
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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