Luke 16:19-31 (Gospel)
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- There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.
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- But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
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- desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
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- So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
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- And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
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- Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’
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- But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.
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- And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
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- Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,
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- for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’
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- Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’
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- And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
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- But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”