Luke 16:27
Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house:
Updated King James Version
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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Cross References
Job 21:21For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Psalms 17:14From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms 49:13This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Ecclesiastes 2:18Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be 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 →