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Luke 16:14

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The Pharisees, who loved money, heard what Jesus said and laughed at him.

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Arrogant people mock me terribly, but I don't give up on your teachings.

People despised him and rejected him. He was a man who really suffered and who experienced the deepest pain. We treated him like someone you turn away from in disgust—we despised him and had no respect for him.

They're greedy dogs that are never satisfied. They're sheepdogs who don't know their job. All of them go their own way, each of them looking out for themselves.

Everyone cheats because they're greedy, poor and rich alike. Even prophets and priests—they are all dishonest liars!

I'm going to give their wives to others, and their fields to different owners, since everyone cheats because they're greedy, poor and rich alike. Even prophets and priests—they are all dishonest liars!

So my people come and visit you like they usually do. They sit and listen to the message you share, but they don't do anything about it. Even though they talk about love, all they're thinking about is how to cheat others.

But what a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You slam shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves don't go in, yet you don't let anyone in who is trying to enter.

“Please leave,” he told them, “For the girl isn't dead, she's just asleep.” But they laughed and made fun of him.

“Watch out, and beware of all greedy thoughts and actions, for a person's life isn't summed up by all the things they own.”

They cheat widows out of what they own, and cover up the kind of people they really are with long-winded prayers. They will receive severe condemnation in the judgment.”

The people stood and watched and the leaders sneered at Jesus. “He saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Messiah, the Chosen One,” they said.

They laughed at him, because they knew that she was dead.

People will love themselves and love money. They will be boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and without God in their lives.

Yet others suffered insults and whippings; they were put in chains and imprisoned.




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