LUKAS 16

Gelykenis van die onregverdige bestuurder.

1 EN Hy het ook aan sy dissipels gesê: Daar was ’n ryk man wat t’n bestuurder gehad het; en hy is by hom aangeklaag as een wat sy besittings verkwis.

2 En hy het hom geroep en vir hom gesê: Wat is dit wat ek van jou hoor? Gee verslag van jou bestuur van sake; want jy sal nie meer bestuurder kan wees nie.

3 Toe sê die bestuurder by homself: Wat sal ek doen? Want my heer neem die bestuurderskap van my weg. Spit kan ek nie; om te bedel, skaam ek my.

4 Ek weet wat ek sal doen, sodat wanneer ek van die bestuurderskap afgesit is, hulle my in hulle huise kan ontvang.

5 Toe roep hy die skuldenaars van sy heer, een vir een, en sê vir die eerste: Hoeveel skuld jy aan my heer?

6 En hy antwoord: Honderd vat olie. En hy sê vir hom: Neem jou skuldbewys, gaan sit en skryf gou vyftig.

7 Daarna sê hy vir ’n ander een: En jy, hoeveel skuld jy? En hy antwoord: Honderd mud koring. Toe sê hy vir hom: Neem jou skuldbewys en skryf tagtig.

8 En die heer het die onregverdige bestuurder geprys, omdat hy verstandig gehandel het; want tdie kinders van hierdie wêreld is verstandiger teenoor hulle geslag as tdie kinders van die lig.

9 En Ek sê vir julle: tMaak vir julle vriende deur die onregverdige Mammon, sodat wanneer julle die lewe verlaat, thulle jul in die ewige tente kan ontvang.

10  tHy wat getrou is in die minste, is ook in die grote getrou; en hy wat onregverdig is in die minste, is ook in die grote onregverdig.

11 As julle dan nie getrou was in die onregverdige Mammon nie, wie sal julle die ware goed toevertrou?

12 En as julle nie getrou was in ’n ander se goed nie, wie sal aan julle jul eie gee?

13  tGeen huiskneg kan twee here dien nie; want hy sal òf die een haat en die ander een liefhê, òf die een aanhang en die ander een verag. Julle kan nie God én Mammon dien nie.

Die gesag van die wet.

14 EN die Fariseërs, twat geldgierig was, het ook al hierdie dinge gehoor en Hom beskimp.

15 En Hy het vir hulle gesê: Dit is julle wat julself tregverdig voor die mense, maar God ken julle harte; want wat by die mens hoog geag word, is ’n gruwel voor God.

16  tDie wet en die profete was tot op Johannes; van toe af word die evangelie van die koninkryk van God verkondig, en telkeen dring met geweld daarin.

17  tMaar dit is makliker dat die hemel en die aarde verbygaan as dat een tittel van die wet sou val.

18  tElkeen wat van sy vrou skei en ’n ander een trou, pleeg egbreuk; en elkeen wat trou met die vrou wat van haar man geskei is, pleeg egbreuk.

Gelykenis van die ryk man en Lasarus.

19 EN daar was ’n ryk man, en hy het purper en fyn linne gedra en elke dag vrolik en weelderig gelewe.

20 En daar was ’n bedelaar met die naam van Lasarus wat vol swere voor sy poort gelê het.

21 En hy het verlang om hom te versadig met die krummels wat van die ryk man se tafel val. Ja, selfs die honde het gekom en sy swere gelek.

22 En toe die bedelaar sterf, is hy deur die tengele weggedra na die tboesem van Abraham.

23 En die ryk man het ook gesterwe en is begrawe. En toe hy in die doderyk sy oë ophef, terwyl hy in smarte was, sien hy Abraham van ver af en Lasarus aan sy boesem.

24 En hy roep en sê: tVader Abraham, wees my barmhartig en stuur Lasarus, dat hy die punt van sy vinger in water kan insteek en my tong verkoel; want tek ly smarte in hierdie vlam.

25 Maar Abraham antwoord: Kind, onthou dat jy tjou goeie dinge in jou lewe ontvang het, en so ook Lasarus die slegte. En nou word hy getroos, maar jy ly smarte.

26 En by dit alles is daar tussen ons en julle ’n groot kloof gevestig, sodat die wat hiervandaan wil oorgaan na julle, nie kan nie; en die wat dáár is, nie na ons kan oorkom nie.

27 En hy sê: Ek bid u dan, vader, om hom na my vader se huis te stuur —

28 want ek het vyf broers — om hulle tdringend te waarsku, sodat hulle nie ook in hierdie plek van pyniging kom nie.

29 Toe sê Abraham vir hom: Hulle het tMoses en die Profete; laat hulle na dié luister.

30 Maar hy antwoord: Nee, vader Abraham, maar as iemand uit die dode na hulle gaan, sal hulle hul bekeer.
31 Maar hy sê vir hom: tAs hulle na Moses en die Profete nie luister nie, tsal hulle nie oortuig word nie, al sou iemand ook uit die dode opstaan.

Luke 16

1  ALSO [Jesus] said to the disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a manager of his estate, and accusations [against this man] were brought to him, that he was squandering his [master’s] possessions.2  And he called him and said to him, What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management [of my affairs], for you can be [my] manager no longer.3  And the manager of the estate said to himself, What shall I do, seeing that my master is taking the management away from me? I am not able to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.4  I have come to know what I will do, so that they [my master’s debtors] may accept and welcome me into their houses when I am put out of the management.5  So he summoned his master’s debtors one by one, and he said to the first, How much do you owe my master?6  He said, A hundred measures [about 900 gallons] of oil. And he said to him, Take back your written acknowledgement of obligation, and sit down quickly and write fifty [about 450 gallons].7  After that he said to another, And how much do you owe? He said, A hundred measures [about 900 bushels] of wheat. He said to him, Take back your written acknowledgement of obligation, and write eighty [about 700 bushels].8  And [his] master praised the dishonest (unjust) manager for acting shrewdly and prudently; for the sons of this age are shrewder and more prudent and wiser in [relation to] their own generation [to their own age and kind] than are the sons of light.9  And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions), so that when it fails, they [those you have favored] may receive and welcome you into the everlasting habitations (dwellings).10  He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much.11  Therefore if you have not been faithful in the [case of] unrighteous mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions), who will entrust to you the true riches?12  And if you have not proved faithful in that which belongs to another [whether God or man], who will give you that which is your own [that is, the true riches]?13  No servant is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (riches, or anything in which you trust and on which you rely).14  Now the Pharisees, who were covetous and lovers of money, heard all these things [taken together], and they began to sneer at and ridicule and scoff at Him.15  But He said to them, You are the ones who declare yourselves just and upright before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted and highly thought of among men is detestable and abhorrent (an abomination) in the sight of God. [I Sam. 16:7; Prov. 21:2.]16  Until John came, there were the Law and the Prophets; since then the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone strives violently to go in [would force his own way rather than God’s way into it].17  Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to fail and become void.18  Whoever divorces (dismisses and repudiates) his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.19  There was a certain rich man who [habitually] clothed himself in purple and fine linen and reveled and feasted and made merry in splendor every day.20  And at his gate there was [carelessly] dropped down and left a certain utterly destitute man named Lazarus, [reduced to begging alms and] covered with [ulcerated] sores.21  He [eagerly] desired to be satisfied with what fell from the rich man’s table; moreover, the dogs even came and licked his sores.22  And it occurred that the man [reduced to] begging died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.23  And in Hades (the realm of the dead), being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.24  And he cried out and said, Father Abraham, have pity and mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.25  But Abraham said, Child, remember that you in your lifetime fully received [what is due you in] comforts and delights, and Lazarus in like manner the discomforts and distresses; but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.26  And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who want to pass from this [place] to you may not be able, and no one may pass from there to us.27  And [the man] said, Then, father, I beseech you to send him to my father’s house--28  For I have five brothers--so that he may give [solemn] testimony and warn them, lest they too come into this place of torment.29  But Abraham said, They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear and listen to them.30  But he answered, No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent (change their minds for the better and heartily amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins).31  He said to him, If they do not hear and listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded and convinced and believe [even] if someone should rise from the dead.