Luke 11
1
And it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place, that when he ceased, one
of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his
disciples.
2
And he said to them, When you pray, say, Father, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom
come.
3
Give us day by day our daily bread.
4
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 to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight,
and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
6
for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before
him;
7
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 you?
8
I say to 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 needs.
9
And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock,
and it shall be opened to you.
10
For every one that asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him whom knocks it
shall be opened.
11
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
Or [if] he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
14
And he was casting out a demon [that was] dumb. And it came to pass, when the demon
was gone out, the dumb man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
15
But some of them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons casts he out demons.
16
And others, trying [him], sought of him a sign from heaven.
17
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself
is brought to desolation; and a house [divided] against a house falls.
18
And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because
you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.
19
And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore
shall they be your judges.
20
But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon
you.
21
When the strong [man] fully armed guards his own court, his goods are in peace:
22
but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he takes from him
his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divides his spoils.
23
He who is not with me is against me; and he who gathers not with me scatters.
24
The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places,
seeking rest, and finding none, he says, I will turn back to my house whence I came
out.
25
And when he is come, he finds it swept and garnished.
26
Then goes he, and takes [to him] seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they
enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becomes 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 to him, Blessed is the womb that bare you, and the breasts
which you did suck.
28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
29
And when the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, This generation
is an evil generation: it seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to
it but the sign of Jonah.
30
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be
to this generation.
31
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
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
No man, when he has lighted a lamp, puts it in a cellar, neither under the bushel,
but on the stand, that they which enter in may see the light.
34
The lamp of your body is your eye: when your eye is single, your whole body also is
full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
35
Look therefore whether the light that is in you be not darkness.
36
If therefore your 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 does give you light.
37
Now as he spoke, a Pharisee asks him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down
to meat.
38
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first bathed himself before
dinner.
39
And the Lord said to him, Now you the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and
of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
40
You foolish ones, did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
41
But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean
to you.
42
But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over
justice and the love of God: but these ought you to have done, and not to leave the
other undone.
43
Woe to you Pharisees! for you love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations
in the marketplaces.
44
Woe to you! for you are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over
[them] know it not.
45
And one of the lawyers answering says to him, Teacher, in saying this you reproach
us also.
46
And he said, Woe to you lawyers also! for you load men with burdens grievous to be
borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47
Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48
So you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers: for they killed them,
and you build [their tombs].
49
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send to them prophets and apostles;
and [some] of them they shall kill and persecute;
50
that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world,
may be required of this generation;
51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and
the sanctuary: yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.
52
Woe to you lawyers! for you took away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves,
and them that were entering in you hindered.
53
And when he was come out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press
upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;
54
laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.