Luke 16:19

First Nations Version

“There was once a man with many possessions who always dressed in the best clothes, had more than enough to eat, and lived a life of ease.

Cross References

Revelation 18:16

and cry out, ‘How terrible! How terrible, O great village! She who was clothed in beautiful red and purple regalia sparkling with gold, costly stones, and pearls has come to a bad end.

Revelation 18:7

As much as she boasted in her rich living, give to her the same in sorrow and suffering. “For this is what she thinks about herself, ‘I rule as a woman chief. I am not like a woman who has lost her husband. I will never know sorrow or grief.’

Revelation 17:4

The woman wore purple and red garments sparkling with gold, costly stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup filled with all of her horrible, shameful, and impure ways.

Luke 16:1

He then told the ones who walked the road with him another story: “There was a man with so many possessions, he had to have someone to oversee them all. The rich man was told that his overseer was mishandling his possessions.

Mark 15:17

They wrapped a purple chief blanket around him and twisted together a headdress from a thorn bush and pressed it onto his head.

Luke 15:13

“Not many days later, the younger son took his share and went far away to another land. He began to spend it all on wild living and soon had nothing left.

Mark 15:20

When they were finished putting on their big show, they stripped him of the purple chief blanket and dressed him in his own clothes. The soldiers forced Creator Sets Free (Jesus) to carry a heavy wooden crossbeam on his back. He stumbled under the weight, because he was weak from the beating he had endured, too weak to bear the burden. But they continued to march him down the road to the place where they would nail him to the cross.

Luke 16:18

“Whoever sends his wife away, without properly divorcing her, and marries another is guilty of being unfaithful to his first wife. Anyone who then marries her is guilty of marrying another man’s wife.

Luke 16:20

Every day a beggar named Creator Helps Him (Lazarus) was laid at the gate of his lodge.