Sin, Faith, Duty
1 Jesus said to his
disciples:
“Things
that cause
people to
stumble
are bound
to come,
but woe to
anyone
through
whom they
come.
2 It
would be
better for
them to be
thrown
into the
sea with a
millstone
tied
around
their neck
than to
cause one
of these
little
ones to
stumble.
3 So watch
yourselves.
“If your brother or sister
sins
against
you,
rebuke
them; and
if they
repent,
forgive
them.
4 Even
if they
sin
against
you seven
times in a
day and
seven
times come
back to
you saying
‘I
repent,’
you must
forgive
them.”
5 The apostles said to the
Lord,
“Increase
our
faith!”
6 He replied, “If you have
faith as
small as a
mustard
seed, you
can say to
this
mulberry
tree, ‘Be
uprooted
and
planted in
the sea,’
and it
will obey
you.
7 “Suppose one of you has
a servant
plowing or
looking
after the
sheep.
Will he
say to the
servant
when he
comes in
from the
field,
‘Come
along now
and sit
down to
eat’?
8 Won’t he
rather
say,
‘Prepare
my supper,
get
yourself
ready and
wait on me
while I
eat and
drink;
after that
you may
eat and
drink’?
9 Will he
thank the
servant
because he
did what
he was
told to
do?
10 So
you also,
when you
have done
everything
you were
told to
do, should
say, ‘We
are
unworthy
servants;
we have
only done
our
duty.’”
Jesus Heals Ten
Men With
Leprosy
11 Now on his way to
Jerusalem,
Jesus
traveled
along the
border
between
Samaria
and
Galilee.
12 As he
was going
into a
village,
ten men
who had
leprosy
met him.
They stood
at a
distance
13 and
called out
in a loud
voice,
“Jesus,
Master,
have pity
on us!”
14 When he saw them, he
said, “Go,
show
yourselves
to the
priests.”
And as
they went,
they were
cleansed.
15 One of them, when he
saw he was
healed,
came back,
praising
God in a
loud
voice.
16 He
threw
himself at
Jesus’
feet and
thanked
him—and he
was a
Samaritan.
17 Jesus asked, “Were not
all ten
cleansed?
Where are
the other
nine?
18 Has
no one
returned
to give
praise to
God except
this
foreigner?”
19 Then he
said to
him, “Rise
and go;
your faith
has made
you well.”
The Coming of the
Kingdom of
God
20 Once, on being asked by
the
Pharisees
when the
kingdom of
God would
come,
Jesus
replied,
“The
coming of
the
kingdom of
God is not
something
that can
be
observed,
21 nor
will
people
say, ‘Here
it is,’ or
‘There it
is,’
because
the
kingdom of
God is in
your
midst.”
22 Then he said to his
disciples,
“The time
is coming
when you
will long
to see one
of the
days of
the Son of
Man, but
you will
not see
it.
23 People
will tell
you,
‘There he
is!’ or
‘Here he
is!’ Do
not go
running
off after
them.
24 For
the Son of
Man in his
day
will be
like the
lightning,
which
flashes
and lights
up the sky
from one
end to the
other.
25 But
first he
must
suffer
many
things and
be
rejected
by this
generation.
26 “Just as it was in the
days of
Noah, so
also will
it be in
the days
of the Son
of Man.
27 People
were
eating,
drinking,
marrying
and being
given in
marriage
up to the
day Noah
entered
the ark.
Then the
flood came
and
destroyed
them all.
28 “It was the same in the
days of
Lot.
People
were
eating and
drinking,
buying and
selling,
planting
and
building.
29 But the
day Lot
left
Sodom,
fire and
sulfur
rained
down from
heaven and
destroyed
them all.
30 “It will be just like
this on
the day
the Son of
Man is
revealed.
31 On that
day no one
who is on
the
housetop,
with
possessions
inside,
should go
down to
get them.
Likewise,
no one in
the field
should go
back for
anything.
32 Remember
Lot’s
wife!
33 Whoever
tries to
keep their
life will
lose it,
and
whoever
loses
their life
will
preserve
it.
34 I
tell you,
on that
night two
people
will be in
one bed;
one will
be taken
and the
other
left.
35 >36
Two
women will
be
grinding
grain
together;
one will
be taken
and the
other
left.”
37 “Where, Lord?” they
asked.
He replied, “Where there
is a dead
body,
there the
vultures
will
gather.”