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St Luke 16:12-19 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

12. And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who will give you that which is your own?

13. No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

14. Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

15. And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.

16. The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one useth violence towards it.

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

18. Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, commmitteth adultery.

19. There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.

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