Luke 16:17
What meaning of the luke 16:17 in the Bible?
What does Luke 16:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."
What does Luke 16:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."
Verse Luke 16:17. _FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS_] Matthew 5:17, Matthew 5:17; _"_Matthew 5:18_"_....
See the notes at Matthew 5:18....
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The Unjust Steward. (Luke 16:1)_ 2. The Impossible Service. (Luke 16:13) 3. The Deriding Pharisees Answered. (Luke 16:14) 4. Concerning Divorce. (Luke 16:18) 5. The Rich Man and L...
WORDS TO PHARISEES. Luke 16:14 f. Lk. only. The verses seem introduced by Lk. to indicate that the preceding and succeeding parables were directed against Pharisees. They also illustrate his antipath...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
HEAVEN. Singular with Art. See note on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. EARTH. Greek. _ge_. App-129. TITTLE. See note on Matthew 5:18 and App-93....
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
VER 14. AND THE PHARISEES ALSO, WHO WERE COVETOUS, HEARD ALL THESE THINGS: AND THEY DERIDED HIM. 15. AND HE SAID TO THEM, YOU ARE THEY WHICH JUSTIFY YOURSELVES BEFORE MEN; BUT GOD KNOWS YOUR HEARTS: F...
_THE PHARISEES RIDICULED JESUS -- LUKE 16:14-18:_ The Pharisees who had been listening to Jesus professed to trust God. Sadly, these Pharisees really loved money. When they heard the things that Jesus...
ΕΎΚΟΠΏΤΕΡΟΝ _сотр. от_ ΕΎΚΟΠΟΣ (G2123) легкий; _сотр._ легче, ΠΑΡΕΛΘΕΊΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΑΡΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G3928) идти мимо, проходить. _Inf._ объясняет, что именно является более легким, ΚΕΡΑΊΑ (G2762...
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN:— Our Lord having in the preceding verse developed the specious and hypocritical pretences of the Pharisees, observes to them, with respect to his own conduct,...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Parable of the Unrighteous Steward Scripture_ Luke 16:1-18 And he said unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him...
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. AND IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS, THAN ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FALL. See the notes at Matthew 5:17....
THE UNJUST STEWARD. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to illus...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *PARABLE OF THE UNJUST MANAGER 16:1-8 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘A rich man had a servant who managed his property. The rich man heard...
IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS. — See Notes on Matthew 5:18. Our first impression on reading the words here is that there is less logical sequence in their position. They seem unconnected w...
Luke 16:14-18 form a “somewhat heavily built bridge” (H. C.) between the two parables, which set forth the right and the wrong use of riches....
A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE Luke 16:14-31 Here was a flagrant case of heartless indifference, amid luxuries of every kind, to the daily spectacle of abject need. Most of us have at least one Lazarus at t...
The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whic...
THE KINGDOM OF GOD Luke 16:16-18. _“The law and the prophets were till John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one passeth into it.”_ These Pharisees hung on His track like lig...
This piece contains: 1 _st._ The parable of the unjust steward, with accompanying reflections (Luke 16:1-13); 2 _d._ Reflections forming an introduction to the parable of the wicked rich man, and the...
(16) The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. (17) And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
In chapter 16, the effect of grace on conduct is presented, and the contrast that exists (the dispensation being changed) between the conduct that Christianity requires with regard to the things of th...
AND IT IS EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS,.... This is said by Christ, lest it should be thought by his saying, that the law and the prophets were until John, that they were no longer, nor of any...
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Ver. 17. See Matthew 5:18 ....
_The law and the prophets were_ in force _until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached_ The gospel dispensation takes place, and humble, upright men, receive it with inexpressible earnes...
ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL; he shows that the gospel-the kingdom of heaven which he has come to establish-does not relax the strictness of the divine law. Of this he gives, in the next verse, an in...
A lesson concerning covetousness....
A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner, yet...
13-18 To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions wi...
Neither do you scandalize me, as if I came to teach a new doctrine, contrary to the law and the prophets. I tell you the quite contrary; heaven and earth shall pass away, before one tittle of the law...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV "More easily, therefore, may heaven and earth pass away-as also the law and the prophets-than that one tittle of the Lord's words should fail."[1316]...
Luke 16:17 And G1161 is G2076 (G5748) easier G2123 heaven G3772 and G2532 earth G1093 away G3928 (G5629) than G2228 one G3391 tittle G2762 law G3551 fail G4098 (G5629) it - Luke 21:33;...
JESUS REPLIES TO THE MOCKERY OF THE PHARISEES DIRECTED AT HIS IDEAS ABOUT WEALTH (16:14-18). The Pharisees had been listening in to his advice to His disciples and they derided Him. For in their eyes...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
ONE TITTLE (μιαν κερεαν). See on Matthew 5:18....
Luke 16:17 I. My text is true of the Bible as a Book divinely inspired. Since John wrote in his cell at Patmos, and Paul preached in his own hired house at Rome, the world has been turned upside down...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust steward. Jesus answers Pharisees. Rich man and Lazarus in the spirit world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, John the Baptist, rich man, Lazarus, Abraham, five broth...
Luke 16:1. _A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods._ After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's property....
BUT IT IS EASIER. See note on Matthew 5:17-18....
_The Pharisees also, who were covetous_ LOVERS OF MONEY Those “lovers of money” heard what things? As rulers of the people they heard the parable of the “unjust steward,” and their own doom as men...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 16:17 BUT suggests that Jesus is seeking to correct a possible misunderstanding of v. Luke 16:16, that the OT moral law will become VOID (see also Luke 21:33). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = do...
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _And He said also unto His disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods._ Having rebuked in three par...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 16:14. In this section, the connection of which with the preceding and following parables is not at first sight apparent, we have evidently the heads of a discourse addressed to...
EXPOSITION LUKE 16:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, and Dives and...
Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all. Now Jesus is at a...
1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 3:10; Isaiah 40:8; Isaiah 51:6; Luke 21:33; Matthew 5:18; Psalms 102:25; Revelation 20:11; Revelation 21:1;...
Tittle. See on Matthew 5:18. THE PARABLE OF DIVES AND LAZARUS. Peculiar to Luke. 19 - 31....
Not that the Gospel at all destroys the law. Matthew 5:18....