Luke 17

¹And he said to his disciples, 'It is impossible that stumbling blocks not come, but woe to the one through whom they come!'

²It is better for him if a millstone is hung around his neck and he is thrown into the sea than that he cause one of these little ones to stumble.

³Watch yourselves. And if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

⁴And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times in the day returns to you saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him.

⁵And the apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith!'

⁶So the Lord said, 'If you have faith like a grain of mustard, you would say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and be planted in the sea," and it would have obeyed you.'

⁷Now who among you, having a slave who is plowing or shepherding, when he comes in from the field, will say to him, 'Come at once and recline at table'?

⁸But will he not say to him, 'Prepare what I may eat, and girding yourself serve me while I eat and drink, and after these things you yourself will eat and drink'?

⁹Does he thank that servant because he did the things commanded to him? I think not.

¹⁰So also you, when you have done all the things commanded to you, say, 'We are unworthy servants, for we have done only what we were obligated to do.'

¹¹And it came to pass as he was going to Jerusalem that he himself was passing through between Samaria and Galilee.

¹²And as he was entering a certain village, ten leprous men met him, who stood at a distance.

¹³And they raised their voice, saying, 'Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!'

¹⁴And having seen them, he said to them, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.' And it came to pass, as they went, they were cleansed.

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

¹⁶and he fell on his face at his feet, giving thanks to him; and he himself was a Samaritan.

¹⁷Then Jesus answered and said, 'Were not the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?'

¹⁸Were none found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?

¹⁹And he said to him, 'Rise and go; your faith has saved you.'

²⁰Now being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God is coming, he answered them and said, 'The kingdom of God does not come with observation,'

²¹nor will they say, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.

²²Then he said to the disciples, 'Days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.'

²³And they will say to you, 'Look, there!' or 'Look, here!' Do not go out, nor pursue them.

²⁴For as the lightning that flashes from one end of the sky to the other end shines, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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

²⁶And just as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

²⁷They were eating, drinking, marrying, being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸Likewise just as it came to pass in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

²⁹But on the day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all;

³⁰According to these same things it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

³¹On that day, whoever is on the housetop with his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and likewise, whoever is in the field, let him not turn back.

³²Remember Lot's wife.

³³Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it.

³⁴I tell you, on that night there will be two on one bed; the one will be taken, and the other will be left.

³⁵There will be two women grinding at the same place; the one will be taken, and the other will be left.

³⁶Two in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.

³⁷And answering, they say to him, 'Where, Lord?' And he said to them, 'Where the corpse is, there also the vultures will be gathered together.'