Luke - Chapter 11 | American Standard Version

  • 1. And it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place, that when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.
  • 2. And he said unto them, {cf6 When ye pray, say, Father, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.}
  • 3. {cf6 Give us day by day our daily bread.}
  • 4. {cf6 And forgive us our sins; for we ourselves also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation.}
  • 5. And he said unto them, {cf6 Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;}
  • 6. {cf6 for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him;}
  • 7. {cf6 and he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee?}
  • 8. {cf6 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needeth.}
  • 9. {cf6 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.}
  • 10. {cf6 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.}
  • 11. {cf6 And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?}
  • 12. {cf6 Or {cf15i if} he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?}
  • 13. {cf6 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall {cf15i your} heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?}
  • 14. And he was casting out a demon {cf15i that was} dumb. And it came to pass, when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spake; and the multitudes marvelled.
  • 15. But some of them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons casteth he out demons.
  • 16. And others, trying {cf15i him}, sought of him a sign from heaven.
  • 17. But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, {cf6 Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house {cf15i divided} against a house falleth.}
  • 18. {cf6 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.}
  • 19. {cf6 And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.}
  • 20. {cf6 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.}
  • 21. {cf6 When the strong {cf15i man} fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace:}
  • 22. {cf6 but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.}
  • 23. {cf6 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.}
  • 24. {cf6 The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out.}
  • 25. {cf6 And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished.}
  • 26. {cf6 Then goeth he, and taketh {cf15i to him} seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.}
  • 27. And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.
  • 28. But he said, {cf6 Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.}
  • 29. And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, {cf6 This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.}
  • 30. {cf6 For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.}
  • 31. {cf6 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.}
  • 32. {cf6 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.}
  • 33. {cf6 No man, when he hath lighted a lamp, putteth it in a cellar, neither under the bushel, but on the stand, that they which enter in may see the light.}
  • 34. {cf6 The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.}
  • 35. {cf6 Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.}
  • 36. {cf6 If therefore thy whole body be full of light, having no part dark, it shall be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining doth give thee light.}
  • 37. Now as he spake, a Pharisee asketh him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
  • 38. And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.
  • 39. And the Lord said unto him, {cf6 Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.}
  • 40. {cf6 Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?}
  • 41. {cf6 But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you.}
  • 42. {cf6 But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.}
  • 43. {cf6 Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.}
  • 44. {cf6 Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over {cf15i them} know it not.}
  • 45. And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also.
  • 46. And he said, {cf6 Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.}
  • 47. {cf6 Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.}
  • 48. {cf6 So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build {cf15i their tombs}.}
  • 49. {cf6 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and {cf15i some} of them they shall kill and persecute;}
  • 50. {cf6 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;}
  • 51. {cf6 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.}
  • 52. {cf6 Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.}
  • 53. And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon {cf15i him} vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;
  • 54. laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
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