Luke 16:27
And he said, I ask, then, father, that you may send him to the house of my father,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
In Context
Cross References
Job 21:21For what [is] his delight in his house after him, || And the number of his months cut off?
Psalms 17:14From men, Your hand, O YHWH, || From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, || And [with] Your hidden things You fill their belly, || They are satisfied [with] sons, || And have left their abundance to their sucklings.
Psalms 49:13This their way [is] folly for them, || And their posterity are pleased with their sayings. Selah.
Ecclesiastes 2:18And I have hated all my labor that I labor at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is 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 →