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Luke 16:15
And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Verse Luke 16:15. _YE - JUSTIFY YOURSELVES_] _Ye declare yourselves to be_ _just_. Ye endeavour to make it appear to men that ye can still feel an insatiable thirst after the present world, and yet s...
THEY DERIDED HIM - The fact that they were “covetous” is here stated as the reason why they derided him, or, as it is literally, “they turned up the nose at him.” They contemned or despised the doctri...
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. ...
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 antipathy...
When the Pharisees, who were characteristically fond of money, heard these things, they derided Jesus. So he said to them, "You are those who make yourselves look righteous before men, but God knows y...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
UNTO THEM. Addressed to the Pharisees. See the Structure "R" and "R", p. 1479. JUSTIFY YOURSELVES. See notes on Luke 15:7; Luke 15:29. and Compare Luke 7:39;...
_Ye are they which justify yourselves before men_ Luke 7:39; Luke 15:29; Matthew 23:25, &c. _God knoweth your hearts_ Hence God is called "a heart-knower" in...
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...
ἘΝΏΠΙΟΝ ΤΩ͂Ν�. Luke 7:39; Luke 15:29; Matthew 23:25, &c. ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΙ ΤᾺΣ ΚΑΡΔΊΑΣ. Hence God is called καρδιογνώστης in Acts 15:8; and “in thy sight s
DIVES AND LAZARUS: A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES...
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...
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΎΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΙΚΑΙΌΩ (G1344) оправдывать, провозглашать праведным. Part-.в роли _subst. Praes. part._ является усилительным, "те, кто пытается оправдать себя" ΎΨΗΛΌΣ (G5308) выс...
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...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Be Sanctified (Luke 16:14-18) 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him. 15But he said to them, You are those who justify yours...
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. AND HE SAID UNTO...
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 illust...
THE PHARISEES MOCK JESUS. HIS REPLY. The connexion of Luke 16:16; Luke 16:18 is difficult, and it may be that they do not properly belong here, but it is also possible that our Lord's discourse is abr...
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...
YE ARE THEY WHICH JUSTIFY YOURSELVES BEFORE MEN. — The character described is portrayed afterwards more fully in the parable of Luke 18:9. The word there used, “this man went down to his house _justif...
ἐνώπιον τ. ἀ.: _cf._ the statements in Sermon on Mount (Matthew 6) and in Matthew 23:5. ὅτι, etc.: a strong statement, but broadly true; conventional moral judgments are very often the reverse of the...
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...
(4) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. (4) Our sins a...
Who justify yourselves, &c. But our Lord, detecting their hidden malice, shews that their pretended justice is all hypocrisy. (Theophylactus) --- But God knoweth, &c. They justify themselves before me...
PRIDE Luke 16:14-15. _“And the Pharisees, being money lovers, were hearing all these things, and murmuring against Him.”_ If you preach holiness like lightning, as Jesus did, money-loving Church membe...
2 _d. Luke 16:14-31_. _The Wicked Rich Man._ The introduction (Luke 16:14-18) is composed of a series of sayings which at first sight appear to have no connection with one another. Holtzmann thinks th...
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...
VERS. 14 AND 15. “ _The Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things; and they derided Him._ 15. _And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth y...
(14) And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. (15) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts;...
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...
_GODS WAYS AND MEN’S WAYS_ ‘And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided Him. And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God kn...
15._It is you that justify yourselves before men. _We see that Christ does not give way to their disdainful conduct, but constantly maintains the authority of his doctrine in opposition to their mocke...
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 HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... That is, Jesus said unto them, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it: "ye are they which justify yourselves before men": from the sins of injustice, unfaithfulness, c...
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. Ver. 15. _For that...
_The Pharisees, who were covetous_ Of a very worldly spirit; _heard all these things_ Namely, concerning the true use of riches, and the impossibility of men's serving God and mammon at the same time;...
JUSTIFY YOURSELVES; you pretend before men to be just and good, and are by them highly esteemed; but God, who sees your hearts, abhors and condemns your hypocrisy and worldliness....
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 w...
By justifying here is to be understood either an appearing before men as just, and strict observers of the law, or a predicating of themselves as just: You (saith our Saviour) make a fine show, and gr...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians "for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."[86] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV from the very thing which is in questio...
Luke 16:15 And G2532 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) justify G1344 ...
‘And he said to them, “You are they who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts, for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” Jesus recognises...
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...
Luke 16:15. YE ARE THEY THAT JUSTIFY YOURSELVES, declare yourselves to be righteous IN THE SIGHT OF MEN; BUT GOD KNOWETH YOUR HEARTS. Plainly implying that in His sight they were not justified, accoun...
The response of the Pharisees (Luke 16:14) called forth another parable, in which another phase, of the same great truth is brought out, namely, that _neglect_ of the proper application of wealth beco...
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...
THAT JUSTIFY YOURSELVES (ο δικαιουντες εαυτους). They were past-masters at that and were doing it now by upturned noses.AN ABOMINATION IN THE SIGHT OF GOD (βδελυγμα ενωπιον του θεου). See on Matth...
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....
IS WORTH NOTHING IN GOD'S SIGHT. The things that seem so important in this world, have no value in God's sight. Compare 1 Corinthians 1:26-31....
_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...
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...
_And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men, i.e._ make outwardly a show of justice, whereas God knoweth your hearts to be full of all uncleanness. For that which is highly...
_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 Chronicles 29:17; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Peter 3:4; 1 Peter 5:5;...
Abomination. See on Matthew 24:15....
And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men — The sense of the whole passage is, that pride, wherewith you justify yourselves, feeds covetousness, derides the Gospel, Luke 16:14...
Here our Saviour sharply reproves the Pharisees for their horrible pride, their self-justification, and vain affectation of the opinion and esteem of others; as if Christ had said, "You bear up yourse...