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The Four Gospels Chapter 16

Chapter 60 of 89

Canonical reference Luke 16

English

World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)

1. He 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.
2. He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
3. “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
4. I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’
5. Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
6. He said, ‘A hundred batosof oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
7. Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred corsof wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
8. “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
9. I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
10. He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
11. If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12. If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
13. No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to one and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
14. The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
15. He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16. “The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
18. “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
19. “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
20. A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
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.
22. The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23. In Hades,he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
24. 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 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 here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.
26. Besides 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 no one 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 - 28. for I have five brothers - that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
29. “But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
30. “He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
31. “He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”

French

Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)

1. Jésus disait aussi à ses disciples : « Un homme riche avait un économe qu’on accusa devant lui de dissiper ses biens.
2. Il l’appela et lui dit : Qu’est-ce que j’entends dire de toi ? Rends compte de ton administration : car désormais tu ne pourras plus gérer mes biens.
3. Alors l’économe dit en lui-même : Que ferai-je, puisque mon maître me retire la gestion de ses biens ? Travailler la terre, je n’en ai pas la force, et j’ai honte de mendier.
4. Je sais ce que je ferai, afin que, lorsqu’on m’aura ôté mon emploi, il y ait des gens qui me reçoivent dans leurs maisons.
5. Faisant donc venir l’un après l’autre les débiteurs de son maître, il dit au premier : Combien dois-tu à mon maître ?
6. Il répondit : Cent barils d’huile. L’économe lui dit : Prends ton billet : assieds-toi vite, et écris cinquante.
7. Ensuite il dit à un autre : Et toi, combien dois-tu ? Il répondit : Cent mesures de froment. L’économe lui dit : Prends ton billet, et écris quatre-vingts.
8. Et le maître loua l’économe infidèle d’avoir agi habilement ; car les enfants de ce siècle sont plus habiles entre eux que les enfants de la lumière.
9. Moi aussi je vous dis : Faites-vous des amis avec les richesses d’iniquité, afin que, lorsque vous quitterez la vie, ils vous reçoivent dans les tabernacles éternels.
10. Celui qui est fidèle dans les petites choses, est fidèle aussi dans les grandes, et celui qui est injuste dans les petites choses, est injuste aussi dans les grandes.
11. Si donc vous n’avez pas été fidèles dans les richesses d’iniquité, qui vous confiera les biens véritables ?
12. Et si vous n’avez pas été fidèles dans un bien étranger, qui vous donnera votre bien propre ?
13. Nul serviteur ne peut servir deux maîtres ; car ou il haïra l’un et aimera l’autre, ou il s’attachera à l’un et méprisera l’autre. Vous ne pouvez servir Dieu et la Richesse. »
14. Les Pharisiens qui aimaient l’argent, écoutaient aussi tout cela, et se moquaient de lui.
15. Jésus leur dit : « Vous êtes ceux qui se font passer pour justes devant les hommes ; mais Dieu connaît vos cœurs ; et ce qui est élevé aux yeux des hommes est une abomination devant Dieu.
16. La Loi et les prophètes vont jusqu’à Jean ; depuis Jean, le royaume de Dieu est annoncé, et chacun fait effort pour y entrer.
17. Plus facilement le ciel et la terre passeront, qu’un seul trait de la Loi périsse.
18. Quiconque renvoie sa femme et en épouse une autre, commet un adultère ; et quiconque épouse la femme renvoyée par son mari, commet un adultère.
19. Il y avait un homme riche qui était vêtu de pourpre et de fin lin, et qui faisait chaque jour splendide chère.
20. Un pauvre, nommé Lazare, était couché à sa porte, couvert d’ulcères,
21. et souhaitant de se rassasier des miettes qui tombaient de la table du riche ; mais les chiens mêmes venaient lécher ses ulcères.
22. Or, il arriva que le pauvre mourut, et il fut porté par les anges dans le sein d’Abraham. Le riche mourut aussi, et on lui donna la sépulture.
23. Dans l’enfer , il leva les yeux, et tandis qu’il était en proie aux tourments, il vit de loin Abraham, et Lazare dans son sein,
24. et il s’écria : Abraham, notre père, aie pitié de moi, et envoie Lazare, pour qu’il trempe dans l’eau le bout de son doigt et me rafraîchisse la langue ; car je souffre cruellement de ces flammes.
25. Abraham répondit : Mon fils, souviens-toi que tu as reçu tes biens pendant ta vie, et que pareillement Lazare a eu ses maux : maintenant il est ici consolé, et toi, tu souffres.
26. De plus, entre nous et vous il y a pour toujours un grand abîme, afin que ceux qui voudraient passer d’ici vers vous ne le puissent, et qu’il soit impossible de passer de là-bas jusqu’à nous.
27. Et le richedit : Je te prie donc, père, d’envoyer Lazare dans la maison de mon père,
28. - car j’ai cinq frères, - pour leur attester ces choses de peur qu’ils ne viennent, eux aussi, dans ce lieu de tourments.
29. Abraham répondit : Ils ont Moïse et les prophètes ; qu’ils les écoutent. - 30. Non, Abraham, notre père, reprit-il ; mais si quelqu’un des morts va vers eux, ils se repentiront.
31. Mais Abraham lui dit : S’ils n’écoutent pas Moïse et les prophètes, quelqu’un des morts ressusciterait, qu’ils ne le croiraient pas. »

Latin

Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)

1. Dicebat autem et ad discipulos suos: Homo quidam erat dives, qui habebat villicum: et hic diffamatus est apud illum quasi dissipasset bona ipsius.
2. Et vocavit illum, et ait illi: Quid hoc audio de te? redde rationem villicationis tuæ: jam enim non poteris villicare.
3. Ait autem villicus intra se: Quid faciam, quia dominus meus aufert a me villicationem? Fodere non valeo, mendicare erubesco.
4. Scio quid faciam, ut, cum amotus fuero a villicatione, recipiant me in domos suas.
5. Convocatis itaque singulis debitoribus domini sui, dicebat primo: Quantum debes domino meo?
6. At ille dixit: Centum cados olei. Dixitque illi: Accipe cautionem tuam: et sede cito, scribe quinquaginta.
7. Deinde alii dixit: Tu vero quantum debes? Qui ait: Centum coros tritici. Ait illi: Accipe litteras tuas, et scribe octoginta.
8. Et laudavit dominus villicum iniquitatis, quia prudenter fecisset: quia filii hujus sæculi prudentiores filiis lucis in generatione sua sunt.
9. Et ego vobis dico: facite vobis amicos de mammona iniquitatis: ut, cum defeceritis, recipiant vos in æterna tabernacula.
10. Qui fidelis est in minimo, et in majori fidelis est: et qui in modico iniquus est, et in majori iniquus est.
11. Si ergo in iniquo mammona fideles non fuistis quod verum est, quis credet vobis?
12. Et si in alieno fideles non fuistis, quod vestrum est, quis dabit vobis?
13. Nemo servus potest duobus dominis servire: aut enim unum odiet, et alterum diliget: aut uni adhærebit, et alterum contemnet. Non potestis Deo servire et mammonæ.
14. Audiebant autem omnia hæc pharisæi, qui erant avari: et deridebant illum.
15. Et ait illis: Vos estis qui justificatis vos coram hominibus: Deus autem novit corda vestra: quia quod hominibus altum est, abominatio est ante Deum.
16. Lex et prophetæ usque ad Joannem: ex eo regnum Dei evangelizatur, et omnis in illud vim facit.
17. Facilius est autem cælum et terram præterire, quam de lege unum apicem cadere.
18. Omnis qui dimittit uxorem suam et alteram ducit, mœchatur: et qui dimissam a viro ducit, mœchatur.
19. Homo quidam erat dives, qui induebatur purpura et bysso, et epulabatur quotidie splendide.
20. Et erat quidam mendicus, nomine Lazarus, qui jacebat ad januam ejus, ulceribus plenus,
21. cupiens saturari de micis quæ cadebant de mensa divitis, et nemo illi dabat: sed et canes veniebant, et lingebant ulcera ejus.
22. Factum est autem ut moreretur mendicus, et portaretur ab angelis in sinum Abrahæ. Mortuus est autem et dives, et sepultus est in inferno.
23. Elevans autem oculos suos, cum esset in tormentis, vidit Abraham a longe, et Lazarum in sinu ejus:
24. et ipse clamans dixit: Pater Abraham, miserere mei, et mitte Lazarum ut intingat extremum digiti sui in aquam, ut refrigeret linguam meam, quia crucior in hac flamma.
25. Et dixit illi Abraham: Fili, recordare quia recepisti bona in vita tua, et Lazarus similiter mala: nunc autem hic consolatur, tu vero cruciaris:
26. et in his omnibus inter nos et vos chaos magnum firmatum est: ut hi qui volunt hinc transire ad vos, non possint, neque inde huc transmeare.
27. Et ait: Rogo ergo te, pater, ut mittas eum in domum patris mei:
28. habeo enim quinque fratres: ut testetur illis, ne et ipsi veniant in hunc locum tormentorum.
29. Et ait illi Abraham: Habent Moysen et prophetas: audiant illos.
30. At ille dixit: Non, pater Abraham: sed si quis ex mortuis ierit ad eos, pœnitentiam agent.
31. Ait autem illi: Si Moysen et prophetas non audiunt, neque si quis ex mortuis resurrexerit, credent.

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  1. Verse 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 w…
  2. Verse 2He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer…
  3. Verse 3“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t ha…
  4. Verse 4I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’
  5. Verse 5Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
  6. Verse 6He said, ‘A hundred batosof oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
  7. Verse 7Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred corsof wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eig…
  8. Verse 8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation…
  9. Verse 9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eter…
  10. Verse 10He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
  11. Verse 11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
  12. Verse 12If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
  13. Verse 13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to one and despise the…
  14. Verse 14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
  15. Verse 15He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted …
  16. Verse 16“The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his…
  17. Verse 17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
  18. Verse 18“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits a…
  19. Verse 19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
  20. Verse 20A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
  21. Verse 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.
  22. Verse 22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
  23. Verse 23In Hades,he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
  24. Verse 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 m…
  25. Verse 25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things…
  26. Verse 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 …
  27. Verse 27“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house -
  28. Verse 28for I have five brothers - that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
  29. Verse 29“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
  30. Verse 30“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
  31. Verse 31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”

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