Luke 16:16-23

¹⁶the law and the prophets are till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

¹⁷and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.

¹⁸'Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

¹⁹'And — a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

²⁰and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,

²¹and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

²²'And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham — and the rich man also died, and was buried;

²³and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,