Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.
Luke 7:41 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “A certain moneylender had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A certain lender of money [at interest] had two debtors: one owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. American Standard Version (1901) A certain lender had two debtors: the one owed five hundred shillings, and the other fifty. Common English Bible “A certain lender had two debtors. One owed enough money to pay five hundred people for a day’s work.The other owed enough money for fifty. Catholic Public Domain Version "A certain creditor had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A certain creditor had two debtors, the one who owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. |
Thus says the Lord: Where is your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.
Then the Lord said to me: Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.
“Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the congregation of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the congregation of Korah but died for his own sin, and he had no sons.
But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him by the throat he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’
But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”
And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.”
But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required, and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.
Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?
Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Teacher,” he replied, “speak.”
Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little.”
But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,