{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/wnt/luke/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:20:51.751Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","book":"Luke","bookSlug":"luke","chapter":17,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":24,"totalVerses":37},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Jesus said to His disciples, |It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"It would be well for him if, with a  millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Be on your guard. |If your brother acts wrongly, reprove him; and if he is sorry, forgive him;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"and if seven times in a day he acts wrongly towards you, and seven times turns again to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him.|"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And the Apostles said to the Lord, |Give us faith.|"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|If your faith,| replied the Lord, |is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, 'Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But which of you who has a  servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Does he thank the  servant for obeying his orders?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, |'There is no merit in our service: what we have done is  only what we were in duty bound to do.'|"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As  they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"In loud voices they cried out, |Jesus, Rabbi, take pity on us.|"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Perceiving this, He said to them, |Go and show yourselves to the Priests.| And while on their way to do this they were made clean."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"|Were not all ten made clean?| Jesus asked; |but where are the nine?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?|"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And He said to him, |Rise and go: your faith has cured you.|"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, |The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can  stealthily watch for it."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is  within you.|"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Then, turning to His disciples, He said, |There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And they will say to you, 'See there!' 'See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But  first He must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the present generation."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"|And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"|On that day, if a man is on the roof and his  property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Remember Lot's wife."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Any man who makes it his object to keep his own  life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his  life will  preserve it."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be  taken away and the other left behind."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be  taken away and the other left behind.|"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"|Where, Master?| they inquired. |Where the dead body is,| He replied, |there also will the vultures flock together.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Luke 17 (WNT)","markdown":"[Luke 17](https://primebible.com/wnt/luke/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/luke/17 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}