Luke 16:27
The rich man said, ‘Then Father, I beg you, please send him to my father's house.
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In The King James Version
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
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Job 21:21For they don't care what happens to their families once they're dead.
Psalms 17:14Lord, by your power, save me from people whose only thought is for this world. May they be filled with what you have in store for them, their children too, with left-overs for their grandchildren!
Psalms 49:13This is the way of foolish people, yet those who come after them think they were clever! Selah.
Ecclesiastes 2:18I even ended up hating what I had achieved here on earth because I have to hand it over to whoever comes after me.
Matthew Henry on Luke 16:20-31
The Rich Man and Lazarus. 19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up… Read the whole commentary →