The Douay-Rheims Audio Bible is a reading of The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version, with Challoner Revisions. Translated from the Latin Vulgate, the Douay-Rheims was the first English translation of the Bible, predating even the King James Version. The New Testament was published in 1582. Narrated by Steve Webb.

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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">AND he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who will give you that which is your own?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one useth violence towards it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And he cried, and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted; and thou art tormented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.16.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.16.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.16.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.16.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.16.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.</span></span></div>
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An historical text. In 1955 the Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible received the Imprimatur ✠ of the English Catholic Church from the Archbishop of Westminster.

AND he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.
And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.
And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.
I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?
But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.
He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater.
If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true?
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who will give you that which is your own?
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.
The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one useth violence towards it.
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.
Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery.
There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.
And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,
Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.
And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom:
And he cried, and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.
And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted; and thou art tormented.
And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither.
And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,
That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.
And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.
And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.

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