Luke 17

¹And he said to his disciples , Temptations to sin are sure to come , but woe to the one through whom they come !

²It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin .

³Pay attention to yourselves ! If your brother sins , rebuke him , and if he repents , forgive him ,

⁴and if he sins against you seven times in the day , and turns to you seven times , saying , I repent , you must forgive him .

⁵The apostles said to the Lord , Increase our faith !

⁶And the Lord said , If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed , you could say to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted in the sea , and it would obey you .

⁷Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field , Come at once and recline at table ?

⁸Will he not rather say to him , Prepare supper for me, and dress properly , and serve me while I eat and drink , and afterward you will eat and drink ?

⁹Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded ?

¹⁰So you also , when you have done all that you were commanded , say , We are unworthy servants ; we have only done what was our duty .

¹¹On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee .

¹²And as he entered a village , he was met by ten lepers , who stood at a distance

¹³and lifted up their voices , saying , Jesus , Master , have mercy on us .

¹⁴When he saw them he said to them , Go and show yourselves to the priests . And as they went they were cleansed .

¹⁵Then one of them , when he saw that he was healed , turned back , praising God with a loud voice ;

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

¹⁷Then Jesus answered , Were not ten cleansed ? Where are the nine ?

¹⁸Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner ?

¹⁹And he said to him , Rise and go your way ; your faith has made you well .

²⁰Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come , he answered them , The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed ,

²¹nor will they say , Look , here it is! or There ! for behold , the kingdom of God is in the midst of you .

²²And he said to the disciples , The days are coming when you will desire 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 or follow them.

²⁴For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other , so will the Son of Man be in his day .

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

²⁶Just as it was in the days of Noah , so will it be in the days of the Son of Man .

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

²⁸Likewise , just as it was in the days of Lot —they were eating and drinking , buying and selling , planting and building ,

²⁹but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom , fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all —

³⁰so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed .

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

³²Remember Lot’s wife .

³³Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it , but whoever loses his life will keep it .

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

³⁵There will be two grinding together . One will be taken and the other left .

³⁷And they said to him , Where , Lord ? He said to them , Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather .