Luke 17

1verseHe said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

2verseIt would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

3verseBe careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

4verseIf he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

5verseThe apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

6verseThe Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

7verseBut who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table’?

8verseWouldn’t he rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

9verseDoes he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

10verseEven so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”

11verseAs he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.

12verseAs he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

13verseThey lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

14verseWhen he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

15verseOne of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

16verseHe fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

17verseJesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

18verseWere there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”

19verseThen he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”

20verseBeing asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation;

21verseneither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

22verseHe said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

23verseThey will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them,

24versefor as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

25verseBut first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

26verseAs it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man.

27verseThey ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

28verseLikewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

29versebut in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.

30verseIt will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

31verseIn that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

32verseRemember Lot’s wife!

33verseWhoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

34verseI tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left.

35verseThere will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.”

36verseThey, answering, asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the vultures will also be gathered together.”