Bible in Basic English
"The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force."
— Luke 16:16, Bible in Basic English
“The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.”
“The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it. ”
“The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.”
No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.
Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.