Luke 16:27

The rich man said, 'I beg you, Father Abraham, that you would send him to my father's house—

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Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:

In Context

26Besides all this, a great chasm has been put in place, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot, and no one can cross over from there to us.'

28for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that it may not be that they come into this place of torment.'

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Cross References

Job 21:21For what does he care about his family after him 1 when the number of his months is cut off? 1

Psalms 17:14Rescue me from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of this world whose prosperity is in this life alone! 1 You will fill the bellies of your treasured ones with riches; they will have many children and will leave their wealth to their children. 1

Psalms 49:13This, their way, is their folly; 1 yet after them, men approve of their sayings. Selah 1

Ecclesiastes 2:18I hated all my accomplishments for which I had worked under the sun because I must leave them behind to the man who 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 →

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