Luke 17
1 Jesus said to his disciples, ‘It is inevitable that there should be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!
And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come!
2 It would be better for them if they had been flung into the sea with a millstone round their neck, rather than that they should cause even one of these little ones to stumble.
It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
3 Be on your guard! If your brother or sister does wrong, rebuke them; but if they repent, forgive them.
Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
4 Even if they wrong you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says “I am sorry,” you must forgive them.’
And if he sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
5 ‘Give us more faith,’ said the apostles to the Master;
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6 but the Master said, ‘If your faith were only like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it would obey you.
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
7 Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, “Come at once and take your place at the table,”
But who is there of you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say unto him, when he is come in from the field, Come straightway and sit down to meat;
8 Instead of saying “Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and serve me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you will eat and drink yourself”?
and will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
9 Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
Doth he thank the servant because he did the things that were commanded?
10 And so with you – when you have done all that you have been told, still say “We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.”’
Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.
11 On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
And it came to pass, as they were on the way to Jerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off:
13 Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly, ‘Jesus! Sir! Pity us!’
and they lifted up their voices, saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
14 When Jesus saw them, he said, ‘Go and show yourselves to the priest.’ And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.
And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go and show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were cleansed.
15 One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, with a loud voice glorifying God;
16 and threw himself on his face at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.
and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
17 ‘Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine – where are they?
And Jesus answering said, Were not the ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
18 Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
Were there none found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger?
19 Get up,’ he said to him, ‘and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.’
And he said unto him, Arise, and go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.
20 Being once asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered, ‘The kingdom of God does not come in a way that can be seen,
And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God cometh, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 nor will people say “Look, here it is!” or “There it is!”; for the kingdom of God is within you!
neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
22 The day will come,’ he said to his disciples, ‘when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.
And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
23 People will say to you “There he is!” Or “Here he is!” Do not go and follow them.
And they shall say to you, Lo, there! Lo, here! go not away, nor follow after [them]:
24 For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.
for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.
But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.
26 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all.
but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
30 It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.
31 On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.
In that day, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and let him that is in the field likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whoever is eager to get the most out of their life will lose it; but whoever will lose it will preserve it.
Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose [his life] shall preserve it.
34 On that night, I tell you, of two people on the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;
I say unto you, In that night there shall be two men on one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 of two women grinding grain together, one will be taken and the other left.’
There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
37 ‘Where will it be, Master?’ asked the disciples. ‘Where there is a body,’ said Jesus, ‘there will the vultures flock.’
And they answering say unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where the body [is], thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
