15. But He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before the people, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable in God’s sight.”
16. “The Torah and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since then, the Good News of the kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and everyone tries forcing his way in.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single serif of the Torah to fail.
18. Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
19. “Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, living it up in luxury every day.
20. But a poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, covered with sores
21. and longing to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Besides, even the dogs were coming to lick his sores.
22. “It happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. Then the rich man also died and was buried.
23. And from Sheol, as he was in torment, he raised his eyes. And he sees Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his side.
24. So he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! And send Lazarus so he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, because I am suffering torment in this flame.’
25. “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good things, even as Lazarus received the bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are tormented.
26. Besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is firmly set, so that those who want to cross over to you cannot, nor can those from there cross over to us.
27. “Then the rich man said, ‘I beg you then, Father Abraham, send Lazarus to my father’s house!
28. For I have five brothers to warn, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’