Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, LukeWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Luke
Weymouth, Richard Francis
Bible. Luke
016:024 So he cried aloud, and said, "`Father Abraham, 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.'
016:025 "`Remember, my child,' said Abraham, `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.
016:026 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.'
016:027 "`I entreat you then, father,' said he, `to send him to
my father's house.
016:028 For I have five brothers. Let him earnestly warn them,
lest they also come to this place of torment.'
016:029 "`They have Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham;
`let them hear them.'
016:030 "`No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; `but if some one goes
to them from the dead, they will repent.'
016:031 "`If they are deaf to Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham,
`they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise
from the dead.'"
017:001 Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of
stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!
017:002 It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck,
he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that
he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.
017:003 Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him;
and if he is sorry, forgive him;
017:004 and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you,
and seven times turns again to you and says, `I am sorry,'
you must forgive him."
017:005 And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."
017:006 "If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed,
you might command this black-mulberry-tree, `Tear up your
roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it
would obey you.
017:007 But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep,
will say to him when he comes in from the farm, `Come at once
and take your place at table,'
017:008 and will not rather say to him, `Get my dinner ready,
make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished
my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?
017:009 Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?
017:010 So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you,
must say, "`There is no merit in our service: what we have
done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"
017:011 As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through
Samaria and Galilee.
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