17Luke 17

1Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!Select Luke 17:1

2It 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.Select Luke 17:2

3Be on your guard. "If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;Select Luke 17:3

4and 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."Select Luke 17:4

5And the Apostles said to the Lord, "Give us faith."Select Luke 17:5

6"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.Select Luke 17:6

7But 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,'Select Luke 17:7

8and 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'?Select Luke 17:8

9Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?Select Luke 17:9

10So 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.'"Select Luke 17:10

11As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee.Select Luke 17:11

12And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.Select Luke 17:12

13In loud voices they cried out, "Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us."Select Luke 17:13

14Perceiving this, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the Priests." And while on their way to do this they were made clean.Select Luke 17:14

15One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,Select Luke 17:15

16and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan.Select Luke 17:16

17"Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?Select Luke 17:17

18Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"Select Luke 17:18

19And He said to him, "Rise and go: your faith has cured you."Select Luke 17:19

20Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.Select Luke 17:20

21Nor will they say, `See here!' or `See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."Select Luke 17:21

22Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.Select Luke 17:22

23And they will say to you, `See there!' `See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.Select Luke 17:23

24For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.Select Luke 17:24

25But first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation.Select Luke 17:25

26"And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man.Select Luke 17:26

27Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.Select Luke 17:27

28The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;Select Luke 17:28

29but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.Select Luke 17:29

30Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man.Select Luke 17:30

31"On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back.Select Luke 17:31

32Remember Lot's wife.Select Luke 17:32

33Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.Select Luke 17:33

34On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be taken away and the other left behind.Select Luke 17:34

35There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."Select Luke 17:35

37"Where, Master?" they inquired. "Where the dead body is," He replied, "there also will the vultures flock together."Select Luke 17:37