These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Luke 16
Brit Hadashah 31 verses
- 1 He said also to His disciples: “There was a rich man who had a steward, about whom a report was brought to him, that he was wasting his property.
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He called him and said, “’What is this I about you? Render an account of your stewardship, for I cannot let you hold it any longer.’
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1 Corinthians 4:2 1 Corinthians 4:5 1 Samuel 2:23-24 Genesis 3:9-11 Genesis 4:9-10 Ecclesiastes 12:14 Romans 14:12 1 Timothy 5:24 1 Peter 4:10 Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 1 Peter 4:5 Luke 12:20 Matthew 12:36 2 Corinthians 5:10 1 Corinthians 1:11 Revelation 20:12 Genesis 18:20-21 Luke 12:42 1 Timothy 4:14 Luke 19:21-26 -
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“Then the steward said within himself, “’What am I to do? For my master is taking away the stewardship from me. I am not strong enough for field labour: to beg, I should be ashamed.
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Mark 10:46 Luke 12:17 Proverbs 27:23-27 Proverbs 15:19 Luke 16:22 Proverbs 20:4 Proverbs 18:9 Acts 9:6 Luke 18:4 Acts 3:2 Proverbs 13:4 Proverbs 26:13-16 Isaiah 10:3 2 Thessalonians 3:11 Proverbs 21:25-26 Proverbs 29:21 Proverbs 19:15 Jeremiah 5:31 Luke 16:20 John 9:8 Esther 6:6 Hosea 9:5 Proverbs 24:30-34 -
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I see what to do, in order that when I am discharged from the stewardship they may give me a home in their own houses.’
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“So he called all his master’s debtors, one by one, and asked the first, ‘How much are you in debt to my master?’
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“’A hundred firkins of oil,’ he replied. “’Here is your account,’ said the steward: ‘sit down quickly and change it into fifty firkins.’
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“To a second he said, “’And how much do you owe?’ “’A hundred quarters of wheat,’ was the answer. “’Here is your account,’ said he: ‘change it into eighty quarters.’
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- 8 “And the master praised the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for, in relation to their own contemporaries, the men of this age are shrewder than the sons of Light.
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“But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.
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Matthew 19:21 Luke 16:11 Luke 12:33 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Proverbs 19:17 Luke 16:13 Isaiah 58:7-8 Luke 11:41 Matthew 6:24 Daniel 4:27 Luke 14:14 2 Timothy 1:16-18 Ecclesiastes 12:3-7 Acts 10:31 Matthew 6:19 1 Timothy 6:9-10 2 Corinthians 9:12-15 Acts 10:4 2 Corinthians 4:17 Matthew 25:35-40 Proverbs 23:5 Isaiah 57:16 Psalm 73:26 Jude 1:21 -
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The man who is honest in a very small matter is honest in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in a very small matter is dishonest in a great one also.
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If therefore you have not proved yourselves faithful in dealing with the wealth that is tainted with fraud, who will entrust to you the true good?
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And if you have not been faithful in dealing with that which is not your own, who will give you that which is your own?
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“No can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of and of gold.”
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- 14 To all this the Pharisees listened, bitterly jeering at Him; for they were lovers of money.
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“You are they,” He said to them, “who boast of their own goodness before men, but sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in Elohim’s sight.
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1 Samuel 16:7 Proverbs 16:5 1 Peter 3:4 1 Corinthians 4:5 1 Peter 5:5 Proverbs 21:2 Jeremiah 17:10 2 Chronicles 6:30 Psalm 7:9 1 Chronicles 29:17 Matthew 23:25-27 Luke 11:39 Luke 10:29 Acts 15:8 Revelation 2:23 Matthew 23:5 Matthew 6:5 Isaiah 1:10-14 Matthew 6:2 Psalm 10:3 Psalm 49:18 Acts 1:18 Luke 20:47 John 21:17 Psalm 139:1-2 John 2:25 Psalm 49:13 Luke 18:11 Romans 3:20 Malachi 3:15 Proverbs 20:6 Luke 20:20 Luke 18:21 Matthew 6:16 Amos 5:21-22 James 2:21-25 - 16 The Law and the Prophets continued until came: from that time the Good News of the Kingdom of has been spreading, and all classes have been forcing their way into it.
- 17 But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.
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Every man who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries her when so divorced from her husband commits adultery.
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- 19 “There was once a rich man who habitually arrayed himself in purple and fine linen, and enjoyed a splendid banquet every day,
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while at his outer door there lay a beggar, Lazarus by ,
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covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man’s table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.
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“But in course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and had a funeral.
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John 13:23 James 1:11 Psalm 49:6-12 Psalm 49:16-19 Mark 8:36 Revelation 14:13 Job 21:30-32 2 Kings 9:34-35 John 21:20 Isaiah 22:16 Hebrews 1:14 Luke 12:20 Psalm 91:11-12 Matthew 8:11 Isaiah 14:18 Proverbs 14:32 Job 3:13-19 1 Peter 2:24 Job 21:13 Isaiah 57:1-2 Psalm 73:18-20 Hebrews 2:14 Matthew 18:10 Ecclesiastes 8:10 Matthew 24:31 Matthew 13:38-43 -
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And in Hades, being in torment, he looked and saw in the far distance, and Lazarus resting in his arms.
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So he cried aloud, and said, “’Father , take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’
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“’Remember, my child,’ said , ‘that you had all your good things during your lifetime, and that Lazarus in like manner had his bad things. But, now and here, he is receiving consolation and you are in agony.
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- 26 And, besides all this, a vast chasm is immovably fixed between us and you, put there in order that those who desire to cross from this side to you may not be able, nor any be able to cross over from your side to us.’
- 27 “’I entreat you then, father,’ said he, ‘to send him to my father’s house.
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For I have five brothers. Let him earnestly warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’
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- 29 “’They have and the Prophets,’ replied ; ‘let them them.’
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“’No, father ,’ he pleaded; ‘but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will .’
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“’If they are deaf to and the Prophets,’ replied , ‘they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise from the dead.’”
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